From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Miroslaw Mieszczak <mieszcz@zabrze.zigzag.pl>,
jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch for link detection for R8169
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 23:15:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050906211551.GC20862@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509062059.j86Kx17K022141@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> :
> On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:42:21 +0200, Francois Romieu said:
>
> > Currently one can do 'ifconfig ethX up', check the link status, then try
> > to DHCP or whatever. Apparently a few drivers do not support tne detection
> > of link as presented above. So is it anything like a vendor requirement/a
> > standard (or should it be the new right way (TM)) or does the userspace
> > needs fixing wrt its expectation ?
>
> The "ifconfig up then check link status" method is probably usable for the
> vast majority of cases. Are there any driver/card combos that *can't* be
> fixed to support that? (A somewhat hidden side effect is that if you're
I meant "as presented above" == "check the link while the network device
is down".
--
Ueimor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-06 21:18 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
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 [this message]
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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