netdev - Re: [PATCHv1] e1000e: Allow ethtool to enable/disable loopback.

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Message-Id: <20110512.004530.900658147557502080.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 12 May 2011 00:45:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	maheshb@...gle.com
Cc:	mirqus@...il.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	therbert@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv1] e1000e: Allow ethtool to enable/disable loopback.

From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 16:11:21 -0700

> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Micha┅ Miros┅aw <mirqus@...il.com> wrote:
>> 2011/5/11 Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>:
>>> This patch adds e1000_set_features() to handle loopback mode. When loopback
>>> is enabled, it enables internal-MAC loopback.
>>
>> Please wait for this driver's conversion to hw_features. One comment
>> below, though.
>>
> This is not intrusive so should not create problems when that happens.

Right and the Intel maintainer folks can resolve such conflicts
anyways.
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