From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.11 7/8] tg3: Fix ethtool set functions Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:59:05 -0500 Message-ID: <42408719.5000307@pobox.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , netdev@oss.sgi.com To: Michael Chan In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Michael Chan wrote: > Fix all relevant ethtool set functions to properly handle the > !netif_running() case. In most cases, the new settings are accepted without > setting the hardware if !netif_running(). The new settings will take effect > when the device is subsequently brought up. tg3_nway_reset() is the exception > where it will return -EAGAIN if !netif_running(). > > > Signed-off-by: Michael Chan