From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC] updated Patch to option HSO driver to the kernel Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:09:35 -0400 Message-ID: <20080425160935.GA9152@infradead.org> References: <20080417214719.GF17664@kroah.com> <480F3C41.10908@teltonika.lt> <4811CF33.8040007@teltonika.lt> <200804251503.31240.oliver@neukum.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Paulius Zaleckas , linux-usb-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Oliver Neukum Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200804251503.31240.oliver-GvhC2dPhHPQdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-usb-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 03:03:30PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Freitag, 25. April 2008 14:31:47 schrieb Paulius Zaleckas: > > - do we really need ethtool support? It always reports that > > ?? ??link is up... The only useful information is driver name, > > ?? ??version and USB path... Is it worth it? > > Yes. NetworkManager does strange things to devices without ethtool > support. NetworkManager is important. So we hack around broken userspace in the kernel now? What about using your energy to fix up NetworkManager (yes, I know it's crap code, but life is hard sometimes) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html