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Until very recently, the usbnet framework only had support functions for devices which reported the link speed by explicitly querying the PHY over a MDIO interface. However, the cdc_ncm devices send notifications when the link state or link speeds change and do not expose the PHY (or modem) directly. Support funtions (e.g. usbnet_get_link_ksettings_internal()) to directly query state recorded by the cdc_ncm driver were added in a previous patch. So instead of cdc_ncm spewing the link speed into the dmesg buffer, record the link speed encoded in these notifications and tell the usbnet framework to use the new functions to get link speed/state. Link speed/state is now available via ethtool. This is especially useful given all current RTL8156 devices emit a connection/speed status notification every 32ms and this would fill the dmesg buffer. This implementation replaces the one recently submitted in de658a195ee23ca6aaffe197d1d2ea040beea0a2 : "net: usb: cdc_ncm: don't spew notifications" v2: rebased on upstream v3: changed variable names v4: rewrote commit message Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> Tested-by: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.