Re: [PATCH] smsc: RFC: Workaround for problems with lan8710 phyauto MDI-X

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Fri Nov 30 2012 - 14:14:35 EST


On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 12:23 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> 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.

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