[systemd-devel] [PATCH 1/2] udev: use "bit" as unit for network card speeds

[David Timothy Strauss]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at inai.de> wrote:

> In any case, even if the ethtool structures awkwardly specified the use
> of "bytes", the user-visible part should be in "bits", and this patch
> was to give an impetus.
>

I won't commit the patch unless there's clarity that setting the value in
megabits works properly. I don't believe in breaking things to motivate
progress. :-)

I'm fine with us providing the setting as Mbps, but it's unclear whether
that will get passed to the kernel as MBps.
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