Re: We have ethtool_ops, any thoughts on miitool_ops?

David T Hollis
2003-08-29T11:46:22Z

David S. Miller wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:50:17 +0200
>Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 04:14, David T Hollis wrote:
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>>>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.
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Thanks for the pointer. I didn't realize I could still have the old
ioctl handler and just not worry about the ethool portion of it.