Am 06.12.21 um 20:29 schrieb Jakub Kicinski: > On Sat, 4 Dec 2021 14:17:50 +0100 Stefan Wahren wrote: >> Introduce a new media selection dedicated for HomePlug powerline >> communication. This allows us to use the proper if_port setting in >> HomePlug drivers. >> >> Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> > I _think_ the IF_PORT API is an very ancient (Linux 2.2) way of > switching ports on early Ethernet cards. Isn't it? It predates > ethtool and all the modern interfaces. Quick grep seems to indicate > it's accessed only for old HW as well. > > Do you have a use case for setting it? Actually not, i will drop it from the patchset.
