[PATCH] alx: revise self-test flag for external loopback

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 06:22:05PM -0700, Huang, Xiong wrote:
> It's a self-test function which could be trigged by ethtool.

Who would run this?

> At run time, or
> normal data path of rx/tx, those codes won't be excuted.

OK so we don't need this as a stable fix for users?

> There is a standard interface set for ethtool, the user use it to
> enable/disable some features such as TSO, checksum offload...  Dump chip
> specific registers, statistics, diagnostic (self test) , and so on...

Can you clarify all this on the commit log then ?

  Luis