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

J. K. Cliburn jcliburn at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 14:06:34 EDT 2013


On 04/04/2013 12:59 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 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
>
Yes, I did misunderstand.  Mea culpa.

Jay



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