upgrade to rawhide report

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Aug 23 20:14:03 UTC 2004


Alan Cox (alan at redhat.com) said: 
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:01:05PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Except for a couple of ioctls like DRVINFO this isnt true.

That's what I'm saying. The only ethtool ioctl kudzu uses is GDRVINFO.

Bill





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