From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: Miroslaw Mieszczak <mieszcz@zabrze.zigzag.pl>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch for link detection for R8169
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 21:46:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050906194602.GA20862@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <431DA887.2010008@zabrze.zigzag.pl>
Miroslaw Mieszczak <mieszcz@zabrze.zigzag.pl> :
> There is a patch to driver of RLT8169 network card. This match make
> possible detection of the link status even if network interface is down.
> This is usefull for laptop users.
(side note: there is maintainer entry for the r8169 and network related
patches are welcome on netdev@vger.kernel.org)
Can you elaborate why it is usefull for laptop users ?
I am sceptical: tg3/bn2x/skge do not seem to allow it either.
Jeff, is it a requirement ?
--
Ueimor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-06 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-06 14:32 Miroslaw Mieszczak
2005-09-06 14:46 ` Matthieu CASTET
2005-09-06 19:46 ` Francois Romieu [this message]
2005-09-06 20:02 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-06 20:42 ` Francois Romieu
2005-09-06 20:59 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-06 21:15 ` Francois Romieu
2005-09-07 14:45 ` Miroslaw Mieszczak
2005-09-07 18:17 ` Francois Romieu
[not found] ` <43207052.3030403@zabrze.zigzag.pl>
2005-09-08 23:49 ` Francois Romieu
2005-09-07 1:56 ` Jeff Garzik
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