upgrade to rawhide report
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Aug 23 20:01:05 UTC 2004
Alan Cox (alan at redhat.com) said:
> > 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.
But the ioctl has *nothing to do with the card state*. It doesn't touch
any registers, all it does is look at a driver-internal field.
Bill
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