From: Francois Romieu <romieu@cogenit.fr>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, Ivan Passos <lists@cyclades.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:00:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001201140042.A8572@se1.cogenit.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001201233227.A9457@metastasis.f00f.org> <200012011207.eB1C78523251@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200012011207.eB1C78523251@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> écrit :
[...]
> We already have a standard interface for this, but many drivers do not
> support it. Its called "ifconfig eth0 media xxx":
>
> bash-2.04# ifconfig --help
> Usage:
> ifconfig [-a] [-i] [-v] [-s] <interface> [[<AF>] <address>]
> ...
> [mem_start <NN>] [io_addr <NN>] [irq <NN>] [media <type>]
Ok. Hmmm... If I want to do something like
'ifconfig scc0 media some_frequency up' as I hope to set scc0 as a DCE (or
ifconfig scc0 media auto up' for a DTE), I must teach ifconfig.c to
distinguish Ethernet and synchrone interface based on interface.type, right ?
--
Ueimor
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-01 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-30 19:16 Ivan Passos
2000-12-01 9:01 ` Francois romieu
2000-12-01 10:32 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-01 11:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2000-12-01 12:30 ` Xavier Bestel
2000-12-01 12:07 ` Russell King
2000-12-01 13:00 ` Francois Romieu [this message]
2000-12-02 16:09 ` Donald Becker
2000-12-02 18:59 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-02 19:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-12-02 19:46 ` Russell King
2000-12-02 20:02 ` Philip Blundell
2000-12-03 5:47 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-03 11:10 ` Philip Blundell
2000-12-03 11:27 ` Russell King
2000-12-03 0:20 ` Keith Owens
2000-12-03 13:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-12-03 20:29 ` Keith Owens
2000-12-03 20:41 ` Keith Owens
2000-12-02 19:48 ` Donald Becker
2000-12-07 8:44 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-01 13:44 ` Philip Blundell
2000-12-01 12:15 ` Francois Romieu
2000-12-01 13:14 ` Bogdan Costescu
2000-12-01 16:26 ` Francois Desloges
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