From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: David T Hollis <dhollis@davehollis.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: We have ethtool_ops, any thoughts on miitool_ops?
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:50:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1062147016.4999.0.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F4EB6F4.3010007@davehollis.com>
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On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 04:14, David T Hollis wrote:
> 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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-29 8:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-29 2:14 David T Hollis
2003-08-29 8:50 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2003-08-29 11:16 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-29 11:46 ` David T Hollis
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