Re: if_wm: support for INTEL 82571EB_SERDES

[Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>]

Hi Masanobu -

masanobu%iij.ad.jp@localhost said:
> I will merge your code and send the diff to you before commit because
> I have no serdes devices. Is it OK?

Yes that would be great.
Btw, ther is certainly a way to query the link state whether
it is up or not. (which would mean that there are idle characters
coming in from the other side) I just can't test it because my
board is plugged into a backplane, and I can't control the
other side, and for obvious reasons I can't pull out the module.
So as long as the module is there the link is up and I can't
do anything about it.

> I read the IEEE 802.3 document and it said "1000BASE-BX10", so I should
> call it as -BX10.

But this is not in if_media.h. And the driver will never be able to tell
whether the lanes are connected to a backplane or a cable, so
it doesn't make sense to have distinct media types.
For me, _AUTO or _MANUAL would do it as well because there is
no choice anyway.

best regards
Matthias



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