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Felipe W Damasio wrote:
>     Also, you shouldn't need the timer stuff to keep track of link change.
> Just the mii_check_media and netif_carrier_{on|off} and you should be fine.

That depends on the hardware, specifically the presence of a reliable 
link interrupt....


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