Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 25/08/12 21:37, Tobias Diedrich wrote: > > This patchset contains a first cut at adding generic support for > > port speed/link advertisement control. > > A few days after you posted this patch series, you posted a patch to power > down unconnected ports to save power on the Carambola. > > I suddenly thought of something. Would it be a good idea to have the > possibility to shut down a PHY from the swconfig interface? Perhaps with > > # swconfig dev rtl8366rb port 0 set adv down > > This way people can save a bit of power on ports that do exist, but are > unconnected in their specific configuration.
It's overloading the interface a bit, but since it fits in pretty well otherwise I think I should implement that. :) -- Tobias PGP: http://8ef7ddba.uguu.de _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
