From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>,
Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>,
linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH update] firewire: net: add carrier detection
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:05:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1292195134.3136.296.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101212180916.71a57a71@stein>
On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 18:09 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
>
> To make userland, e.g. NetworkManager work with firewire, we need to
> detect whether cable is plugged or not. Simple and correct way of doing
> that is just counting number of peers. No peers - no link and vice
> versa.
[...]
NM doesn't use ETHTOOL_GLINK so you don't need to implement
ethtool_ops::get_link.
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-12 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-29 2:09 [PATCH 0/5 V2] Firewire networking assorted fixes Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-29 2:09 ` [PATCH 1/5] firewire: ohci: restore GUID on resume Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-29 2:09 ` [PATCH 2/5] firewire: ohci: restart ISO DMA contexts on resume from low power mode Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-29 2:09 ` [PATCH 3/5] NET: IPV4: ARP: allow to invalidate specific ARP entries Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-04 23:15 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-05 8:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-05 11:23 ` [PATCH] net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl() Eric Dumazet
2010-12-05 12:03 ` [PATCH net-2.6] llc: fix a device refcount imbalance Eric Dumazet
2010-12-08 17:59 ` David Miller
2010-12-09 3:46 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-16 21:49 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-08 18:05 ` [PATCH] net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl() David Miller
2010-12-08 18:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-08 18:10 ` David Miller
2010-12-08 18:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-07 12:47 ` [PATCH 3/5] NET: IPV4: ARP: allow to invalidate specific ARP entries Maxim Levitsky
2011-01-07 12:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-07 13:15 ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-01-08 23:57 ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-01-11 0:11 ` David Miller
2010-11-29 2:09 ` [PATCH 4/5] firewire: net: invalidate ARP entries of removed nodes Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-29 2:09 ` [PATCH 5/5] firewire: net: ratelimit error messages Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-29 15:02 ` [PATCH 0/5 V2] Firewire networking assorted fixes Stefan Richter
2010-12-04 23:14 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-08 3:32 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-09 1:42 ` Maxim Levitsky
[not found] ` <20101208040559.20639.qmail@stuge.se>
[not found] ` <1291809485.5421.0.camel@maxim-laptop>
2010-12-12 17:09 ` [PATCH update] firewire: net: add carrier detection Stefan Richter
2010-12-12 23:05 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-12-13 0:46 ` [PATCH update 2] " Stefan Richter
2010-12-13 23:01 ` [PATCH update 3] " Stefan Richter
2010-12-14 23:46 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-16 1:17 ` Dan Williams
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