netdev - Re: [PATCH] natsemi: make cable length magic configurable

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Message-ID: <1322502664.26733.9.camel@bwh-desktop>
Date:	Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:51:04 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	<jdelvare@...e.de>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <thockin@...kin.org>,
	<okir@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] natsemi: make cable length magic configurable

On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 01:37 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:43:59 +0100
> 
> > We had a customer report concerning problems with a Natsemi DP83815-D
> > and long cables. With 100m cables, the network would be essentially dead,
> > not a single packet would get through either way. We had to apply the
> > patch below to make it work.
> 
> Please do not add new private device driver module knobs.
> 
> Instead, add generic flags to the ethtool interface or similar to
> control device behavior.

This isn't a generic flag; it seems to be a workaround for a specific
bug that unfortunately can't be automatic.

That's why I suggested an ethtool private flag.

Ben.

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