Re: A new driver for Broadcom bcm5706

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 08:58:23AM -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
> > These defintions overlap older 10MB/s defintions.  I don't think the number
> > space is scare enough to need this hack.  If we absolutely want to keep it
> > you should at least add some big comments explaining it.
> > 
> > 
> Yes they do. But these overlapping bit definitions are defined by the
> 802.3 standard for 1000Base-X. These are not Broadcom proprietary
> definitions.

Ok, makes a lot of sense.  Now just mention that in a nice comment in
ethtool.h :)