From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdlab.org>
To: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Cc: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net>,
Peter Sandstrom <peter@zaphod.nu>,
Robert Cantu <robert@tux.cs.ou.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question: Etherenet Link Detection
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 17:10:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BB26E5F.23BD5787@osdlab.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200109262349.f8QNnju14536@www.hockin.org>
Tim Hockin wrote:
>
> > It's traditionally been defined as MII information, but that's
> > awfully slow, so some Ethernet controllers make it available
> > in a quicker manner.
> >
> > ethtool might do this (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/);
> > I don't know for sure.
>
> The only interface to this is through MII, unless we want to add an ETHTOOL
> style ioctl to get the link status. This means, however, that every driver
> that wants to report this needs to support at least a subset of ethtool
> ioctls, which VERY FEW do.
Right. I think that Jeff was thinking about this for 2.5 (what's
that?),
but I'm not trying to speak for Jeff.
Or maybe this has already been discussed on these mailing lists:
linux-net@vger.kernel.org or netdev@oss.sgi.com
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-27 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-26 21:41 Question: Etherenet Link Detection Robert Cantu
2001-09-27 23:36 ` Peter Sandstrom
2001-09-26 23:39 ` Matthew Dharm
2001-09-26 23:49 ` Randy.Dunlap
2001-09-26 23:49 ` Tim Hockin
2001-09-27 0:10 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2001-09-27 0:06 ` Ben Greear
2001-09-27 14:58 ` Robert Cantu
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