netdev - Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Do not report link partner advertising flags if set to 0

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Message-ID: <4B2E8A3C.9000908@garzik.org>
Date:	Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:34:04 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
CC:	Kurt Roeckx <kurt@...ckx.be>, 561843@...s.debian.org,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Do not report link partner advertising flags
 if set to 0

On 12/20/2009 02:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Only some drivers (and none before kernel version 2.6.31) currently
> set these flags.  When the flags are equal to 0 and so we don't know
> what the link partner advertised, don't report anything.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings<ben@...adent.org.uk>
> ---
>   ethtool.c |    4 +++-
>   1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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