Subject: Re: A new driver for Broadcom bcm5706

From: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 08:41:15 +0100

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:15:29AM -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
> A new driver bnx2 for Broadcom bcm5706 is available. Since the patch is
> over 500K, I've put it on the ftp server:
> 
> ftp://[email-masked]/bnx2-2.patch
> 
> The patch also includes new 1000BASE-X advertisement bit definitions in
> mii.h

These defintions overlap older 10MB/s defintions.  I don't think the number
space is scare enough to need this hack.  If we absolutely want to keep it
you should at least add some big comments explaining it.