From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: arjanv@redhat.com
Cc: dhollis@davehollis.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: We have ethtool_ops, any thoughts on miitool_ops?
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 04:16:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030829041629.69a3be62.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1062147016.4999.0.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:50:17 +0200
Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 04:14, David T Hollis wrote:
> > If a driver is converted to use ethtool_ops, it does not seem to have
> > the ability to support mii-tool any longer. RedHat uses mii-tool to
> > check for link before running dhclient so that you don't have to wait
> > forever for dhclient to timeout if the connection is down (laptops,
> > etc).
>
> this is legacy; the road to the future for this is ethtool + the link
> status change notification stuff
Besides, the original claim is false. You can still support all
the other ioctls however you want, even the MII ones, after
enabling ethtool_ops in a driver.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-29 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-29 2:14 We have ethtool_ops, any thoughts on miitool_ops? David T Hollis
2003-08-29 8:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-08-29 11:16 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-08-29 11:46 ` David T Hollis
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