From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <li...@armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Jun/05/2020, 18:10:34 (UTC+00:00)

> This is incorrect - you should not mask the link partner's advertisement
> with our advertisement like this; consider the table in 802.3 for
> resolving the pause modes, where simply doing a bitwise-and operation
> between the two advertisements would severely restrict the resulting
> resolution to either symmetric pause or nothing at all.
> 
> You want to do this when you resolve the speed, but only _temporarily_
> in order to resolve the speed - you do not want to write back the
> result to state->lp_advertising.

Thanks for bringing this up. Indeed I believe I did this in order to 
resolve the speed, as you said.
 
> You may wish to fix that.

Added to the list of my pending fixes. Thanks!

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Thanks,
Jose Miguel Abreu

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