netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] alx: add a simple AR816x/AR817x device driver

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Message-ID: <1371847374.8936.0.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Fri, 21 Jun 2013 22:42:54 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, mcgrof@...not-panic.com, kvalo@...rom.com,
	adrian.chadd@...il.com, Johannes Stezenbach <js@...21.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] alx: add a simple AR816x/AR817x device driver

On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 13:45 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> > Ok, I can kick out the 'select NET_CORE' here anyway as MDIO doesn't
> > need it. Or did you want to do a more general cleanup on this, then I'll
> > leave it to you?
> 
> See commit a1606c7dc64d8449676d7e840dd2cd0c4e0a0c57.

Ok, I'll remove it from alx.

> > How would I even test that? Find random devices that have flow control?
> > I don't think I have anything that would be programmable, unless I don't
> > know about it being so :-)
> 
> Most Ethernet controllers seem to support flow control.  Though, in a
> quick test, the e1000e driver on my laptop never seems to turn off Pause
> advertising!

Hah! And how did you determine that? :)

johannes

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