On 04/01/09 07:49, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
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> 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.
Kais.
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> - Garrett
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