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From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
To: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"e1000-devel" <e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: 3.0.0rc6: ethtool not working without a cable
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 18:57:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107061857.21206.a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1309971146.6217.0.camel@jbrandeb-mobl.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Wednesday 06 of July 2011, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 08:26 -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 16:53 +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 06 of July 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 13:38 +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > > > > 3.0.0rc6, thinkpad t400 notebook.
> > > > > 
> > > > > If there is no cable then ethtool reports no device. It wasn't that
> > > > > before AFAIK.
> > > > > 
> > > > > ethtool version 2.6.36
> 
> snip
> 
> > Then the only other explanation I can think of is that the driver has
> > 'detached' the device due to some kind of error.  The ethtool core does
> > have a check for that.
> 
> could it be that aspm is enabled 

I have CONFIG_PCIEASPM=y

> or that you've enabled runtime power
> management?

In e1000e? no (unless it's default somehow).

-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-06 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-06 11:38 3.0.0rc6: ethtool not working without a cable Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2011-07-06 14:28 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-07-06 14:53   ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2011-07-06 15:26     ` Ben Hutchings
2011-07-06 16:52       ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2011-07-06 16:57         ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz [this message]
2011-07-07 16:47           ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2011-07-07 17:03             ` Ben Hutchings
2011-07-20 17:53     ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2011-07-20 17:57       ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz

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