Re: Fix for kern/20700

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 01:15:54PM -0800, Brian Buhrow wrote:
>       Hello. I've written a patch which addresses this bug and submitted it 
> to the pr.
> If no one objects, I'll commit this patch in a few days and request a
> pullup to the 5.x branch.  If there are objections, I'm happy to discuss
> and/or incorporate a better fix.  This fix works quite well in my case.
>       If you're interested in a greater analysis and discussion of
> thisissue, see:
> http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2011/11/30/msg012025.html

In the kern/20700 discussion, Manuel Bouyer mentions that 'media
1000baseT' behaves like 'media auto', so NetBSD may negotiate '1000baseT
full-duplex' or '100baseTX full-duplex'.  The latter result would be a
very big surprise.  Maybe someone can help fix that before the patch is
committed.

Dave

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