From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 19:46:01 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200012021946.TAA07734@raistlin.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1001202130202.1450B-100000@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com> from "Jeff Garzik" at Dec 02, 2000 01:07:29 PM
Jeff Garzik writes:
> Does 'ifconfig eth0 media xxx' wind up calling dev->set_config?
Yes. See drivers/acorn/net/etherh.c for an(other) example driver
supporting 10baseT and 10base2.
> If yes, my guess is correct, I think the proper solution is to:
> * create a generic set_config, which does nothing but convert the calls'
> semantics into ethtool semantics, and
> * add ethtool support to the specific driver
Sounds logical.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-02 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-30 19:16 [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux Ivan Passos
2000-12-01 9:01 ` Francois romieu
2000-12-01 10:32 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-01 11:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2000-12-01 12:30 ` Xavier Bestel
2000-12-01 12:07 ` Russell King
2000-12-01 13:00 ` Francois Romieu
2000-12-02 16:09 ` Donald Becker
2000-12-02 18:59 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-02 19:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-12-02 19:46 ` Russell King [this message]
2000-12-02 20:02 ` Philip Blundell
2000-12-03 5:47 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-03 11:10 ` Philip Blundell
2000-12-03 11:27 ` Russell King
2000-12-03 0:20 ` Keith Owens
2000-12-03 13:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-12-03 20:29 ` Keith Owens
2000-12-03 20:41 ` Keith Owens
2000-12-02 19:48 ` Donald Becker
2000-12-07 8:44 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-01 13:44 ` Philip Blundell
2000-12-01 12:15 ` Francois Romieu
2000-12-01 13:14 ` Bogdan Costescu
2000-12-01 16:26 ` Francois Desloges
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