netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] ethtool: don't overwrite useful bits in advertising bitfield

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Date:	Thu, 6 Sep 2012 20:05:48 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Johan Gunnarsson <johan.gunnarsson@...s.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ethtool: don't overwrite useful bits in advertising
 bitfield

On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 13:32 +0200, Johan Gunnarsson wrote:
> There are bits in this bitfield that we want to leave untouched (PAUSE
> and ASYM_PAUSE bits) when changing other bits (speed and duplex bits.)
> Previously, these were always overwritten to zero when running commands
> like "ethtool -s eth0 speed 10 duplex full autoneg off".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johan Gunnarsson <johangu@...s.com>
[...]

Applied, thanks.  I made some minor fixes to spelling and formatting.

Ben.

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