On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 12:23 -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:23:30 +0100 (CET) > > > Of course it'd be far better if faulty hardware can be autodetected in > > runtime. > > That is how this must be handled.
Well, we also have the recent extension to ETHTOOL_SSET for forcing MDI-X on or off. If it's not possible to detect the faulty hardware then the driver can implement this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
