netdev - Re: [PATCH NEXT 2/2] netxen: support for GbE port settings

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Message-Id: <20110314.153240.241445951.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:32:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	amit.salecha@...gic.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ameen.rahman@...gic.com, anirban.chakraborty@...gic.com,
	sony.chacko@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH NEXT 2/2] netxen: support for GbE port settings

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:30:22 +0000

> On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 15:15 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>
>> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:50:03 -0800
>> 
>> > From: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@...gic.com>
>> > 
>> > o Allow setting speed and auto negotiation parameters for GbE ports.
>> > o Log an error message to indicate duplex setting is not supported in
>> >   the hardware currently.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@...gic.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>
>> 
>> The kernel log is not the place to transmit this information.
>> 
>> Please work with Ben Hutchings who is working for ways to report
>> this to the user in the proper location, via ethtool.
> 
> I am?  Well, patches welcome, at least.

You were discussing a scheme, I think with Intel folks, about letting
such changes through then making ethtool re-read the settings and see
which changes were not integrated by the driver.

Then you'd emit a diagnostic from ethtool over stderr to report any
such discrepencies.
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