Kais Belgaied wrote:
> On 04/01/09 07:49, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>
>> I'd suggest for a more concrete proposal from you if you want to do
>> that. I'm not a huge fan of the way the tunables work, but they fall
>> out rather naturally from the way the 802.3 MII works. They allow
>> one to specifically enable any set of abilities, and arbitrarily
>> disable any specific ones. I know that most folks never use this
>> ability beyond forcing a specific speed/duplex setting, but there
>> could be some that are doing more unusual things with them.
>>
>> And, as Paul said, not this case.
>>
>> However, if you want to, we can promote this case to a fast track. I
>> don't think that will change the fact that what you're looking for is
>> out of scope for this case, though.
>
> please do,
>
> I'm still not clear on why a combination of setting the existing
> 'speed' and 'duplex' link properties is not sufficient here.
I'm promoting it to a fast track, timeout set for next Wednesday.
(April 8).
To answer your question: MII allows one to set any random set of
"autonegotation" properties, so that you can for example, exclude all
10Mbps and all half duplex modes. Or you can force half duplex for all
modes except 10G. Or whatever. Any combination. The autonegotiation
logic is supposed to then pick the best of the modes you've allowed for.
This is much different than just forcing a single speed & duplex setting.
-- Garrett
>
> Kais.
>>
>> - Garrett
>>
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