On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:50:21 +0100, David Schweikert wrote:

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 13:31:24 -0800, David Miller wrote:

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It is apparently not possible to set the link parameters on a niu
interface (speed, duplex mode, auto-negotiation) with ethtool.
Is support for it planned?

Yes, at some point, although that work is pretty low priority
to be honest.

OK, thanks for the information. Would it be possible for the company I
work for, to somehow sponsor the development of this feature? Do you
know maybe a fellow developer that might be interested?

We have found a company developing kernel drivers wanting to implement
this for us. Please let me know if you foresee any problem with that.

Should anything in particular be done in order for the future patch
to have good chances of being integrated in the main branch?

Cheers
David