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Date:      Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:42:47 +0100
From:      Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To:        Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>
Cc:        Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [patch] re(4) problems on networks with disabled autonegotiation "solver" (WAS: Juniper e3k with ports limitied to...) -- REQUEST FOR REVIEW
Message-ID:  <20110116144247.GA65399@alchemy.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <178613186.20110114134109@serebryakov.spb.ru>
References:  <36074996.20110112192009@serebryakov.spb.ru> <20110112213208.GD12920@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <20110112225907.GA44318@alchemy.franken.de> <20110113173925.GA49356@alchemy.franken.de> <20110113212713.GC17502@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <20110114012412.GK97101@alchemy.franken.de> <178613186.20110114134109@serebryakov.spb.ru>

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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 01:41:09PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Marius.
> You wrote 14 ?????? 2011 ?., 4:24:12:
> 
> > found by ignoring the bits set in the "don't care mask". I've
> > updated the patch at the above URL accordingly and based on my
> > testing it now should actually work as expected. Sorry for the
> > glitch.
>   Yes, it works for me.

Thanks for testing! I've committed the patch to HEAD and will try
to get it into 7.4 and 8.2.

>   Only one note: I think, it is good idea to document this flag in
>   re(4).
> 

Technically re.4 obviously is the wrong location for documenting it
as it's generally the business of the PHY drivers to handle the media.
Moreover, rgephy(4) driven PHYs are also commonly used in combination
with at least axe(4), nfe(4), nve(4) and sge(4) MACs so we would have
to document this special media option in all of the corresponding man
pages, which would introduce undesirable redundancy. So instead I've
added a rgephy.4 man page and documented it there.
Actually, this is a very good example for why we generally should not
document media types and options in the man pages of MAC drivers that
take advantage of mii(4) but instead add a common ifmedia.4 and just
point there and if as in this case it makes sense to man pages of 
specific PHY drivers.

Marius




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