On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 16:52 +0200, Jonas Gorski wrote: > Yes, but none of the ethtool functions cause register writes in the > priv->has_phy = true case when in PHY_READY or PHY_HALTED state. All > they do is modify the phy_device's settings. unless I'm mistaken: phy_ethtool_sset() => phy_start_aneg() will kick the state machine even when state is PHY_READY -- Maxime -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html