Re: [PATCH 3/4] atl1: Main C file for Attansic L1 driver

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Stephen Hemminger wrote:
Using common MII code is good, but one problem with the existing MII code is that
it doesn't work when device is down. This makes it impossible to set speed/duplex
before device comes up.


That's not true at all. drivers/net/mii.c uses caller-provided locking in all cases, and there is nothing that prevents the common code from being called when the interface is down.

You are probably thinking about all the netif_running() checks found in the drivers, particularly in the ->begin() hook.

	Jeff


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