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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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  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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