Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-16T03:23:41Z

On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 18:20 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> what this needs is a separation between "interface down, all off" and
> "interface down enough so that link detection works".
> Some NICs can go all the way down and still do link detection, others
> cannot. This is obviously something the driver will know, nothing else
> in the system should know.

Sure, my point was just that the driver cannot make the decision to go
all-off (and thus not detect link) without some kind of user setting
allowing it to do so.

Cheers,
Ben.