From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Naohiro Ooiwa <nooiwa@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: mchan@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2: Fix the behavior of ethtool when ONBOOT=no
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:43:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A4257B8.2090105@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A41961B.2090206@miraclelinux.com>
Naohiro Ooiwa wrote:
> Hi Michael
>
> I found a little bug.
>
> When configure in ifcfg-eth* is ONBOOT=no,
> the behavior of ethtool command is wrong.
>
> # grep ONBOOT /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2
> ONBOOT=no
> # ethtool eth2 | tail -n1
> Link detected: yes
>
> I think "Link detected" should be "no".
Why? Sure, there is no IP on the link, but does that mean the link is
otherwise unusable? Is ethtool only about IP status?
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-24 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-24 2:57 [PATCH] bnx2: Fix the behavior of ethtool when ONBOOT=no Naohiro Ooiwa
2009-06-24 3:48 ` Michael Chan
2009-06-24 4:43 ` Naohiro Ooiwa
2009-06-24 5:04 ` Michael Chan
2009-06-24 5:45 ` Naohiro Ooiwa
2009-06-24 7:08 ` David Miller
2009-06-24 7:16 ` David Miller
2009-06-24 8:39 ` Naohiro Ooiwa
2009-06-24 16:43 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2009-06-24 16:59 ` Michael Chan
2009-06-24 23:42 ` David Miller
2009-06-24 23:48 ` Michael Chan
2009-06-25 0:12 ` David Miller
2009-06-25 0:25 ` David Miller
2009-06-26 4:30 ` Naohiro Ooiwa
2009-06-29 0:49 ` Naohiro Ooiwa
2009-06-30 14:50 ` Eilon Greenstein
2009-06-30 19:46 ` David Miller
2009-07-02 4:46 ` Naohiro Ooiwa
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