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

Luis R. Rodriguez rodrigue at qca.qualcomm.com
Thu Apr 4 13:59:18 EDT 2013


On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 12:15:03PM -0500, J. K. Cliburn wrote:
>    I agree with Xiong.  ethtool is a very popular tool for manipulating and
>    monitoring ethernet devices.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethtool, or
>    see the ethtool manpage at
>    http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/ethtool8.html .
> 
>    Although it may not be widely used by the majority of Linux users, it is
>    an indispensable tool when troubleshooting ethernet devices.

You are not understanding why I was asking for details. I was asking
for more details to let maintainers decide where to apply patches to
if this was indeed a fix. the commit log message just needed more
love to help maintainers make these decisions.

  Luis



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