10G link properties [PSARC/2009/206 Self Review]

[Kais Belgaied]

On 04/01/09 07:49, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
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> I'd suggest for a more concrete proposal from you if you want to do 
> that.  I'm not a huge fan of the way the tunables work, but they fall 
> out rather naturally from the way the 802.3 MII works.  They allow one 
> to specifically enable any set of abilities, and arbitrarily disable 
> any specific ones.  I know that most folks never use this ability 
> beyond forcing a specific speed/duplex setting, but there could be 
> some that are doing more unusual things with them.
>
> And, as Paul said, not this case.
>
> However, if you want to, we can promote this case to a fast track.  I 
> don't think that will change the fact that what you're looking for is 
> out of scope for this case, though.

please do,

I'm still not clear on why a combination of setting  the existing 
'speed' and 'duplex' link properties is not sufficient here.

    Kais.
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>    - Garrett
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