Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] forcedeth: fix power management support

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
Date: 29 May 2007 11:31:18 +0200

Ayaz Abdulla <[email-masked]> writes:

> This patch fixes the power management functions. It includes lowering
> the phy speed to conserve power.

Shouldn't there be some way to disable this? AFAIK a few old switches
have trouble with this. I assume a new ethtool option would be appropiate
since we expect other drivers to gain this capability too.
Could some of this code be put into the generic MII layer?

-Andi