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Heiner Kallweit
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So far the two functions consider neither member eee_enabled nor eee_active. Therefore network drivers have to do this in some kind of glue code. I think this can be avoided. Getting EEE parameters: When not advertising any EEE mode, we can't consider EEE to be enabled. Therefore interpret "EEE enabled" as "we advertise at least one EEE mode". It's similar with "EEE active": interpret it as "EEE modes advertised by both link partner have at least one mode in common". Setting EEE parameters: If eee_enabled isn't set, don't advertise any EEE mode and restart aneg if needed to switch off EEE. If eee_enabled is set and data->advertised is empty (e.g. because EEE was disabled), advertise everything we support as default. This way EEE can easily switched on/off by doing ethtool --set-eee <if> eee on/off, w/o any additional parameters. The changes to both functions shouldn't break any existing user. Once the changes have been applied, at least some users can be simplified. Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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