Re: upgrade to rawhide report

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:39:41PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Alan Cox (alan redhat com) said: 
> > Everything else has "open it, do stuff, close it". Making kudzu do this
> > would fix a lot of bugs, and indeed SuSE seem to follow that rule in yast
> 
> All kudzu is doing is running the ethtool 'tell me what driver you have'
> ioctl. Which shouldn't really care one whit about the card's state.

ethtool only works rationally for several cards if the interface is already
up (and preferably has been for a few seconds). I'm not sure what needs
changing for our boot behaviour but that is the reality. 

Alan