Bug#561843: ethtool/mii-tool report incorrect/missing values on Marvell 88E1011

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

reassign 561843 ethtool
thanks

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 06:55:27PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 19:36 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:54:42PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > It also ways:
> > > >         Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: No
> > > >         Auto-negotiation: on
> > > > 
> > > > Those also seem to conflict and it really should advertise it.
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > No, "Auto-negotiation: on" does not mean auto-negotiation was
> > > successful.
> > 
> > But the link parter does support auto-negotiation, while
> > it says no.
> 
> That's really a bug in ethtool; it should say "not reported".  I'll
> submit a patch.

You patch has been merged and it present in the 2.6.34 from unstable.

Reassigning, I'll leave it to ethtool maintainers to actually close it.

Cheers,
        Moritz