> From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:and...@lunn.ch] > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 3:58 PM > > I believe I can make the physical phys accessible through ethertool. > > Would that be reasonable? > > How, you have no netdev to attach them to? > > There was a nice presentation at netdev last week by Mellanox about their > switches. I don't know if the video is available yet, but that shows the > correct > way to do this. >
You are right. I misunderstood how ethtool works. Again, I'd like to change our target device to LAN9250, which is just an Ethernet controller with no switch. Will a driver for that device be more easily accepted?
