Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264530AbTH2LqW (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:46:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264533AbTH2LqW (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:46:22 -0400 Received: from user-0cal2fl.cable.mindspring.com ([24.170.137.245]:32676 "EHLO bender.davehollis.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264530AbTH2LqR (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:46:17 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4F3D18.4010804@davehollis.com> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:46:32 -0400 From: David T Hollis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: arjanv@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: We have ethtool_ops, any thoughts on miitool_ops? References: <3F4EB6F4.3010007@davehollis.com> <1062147016.4999.0.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20030829041629.69a3be62.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20030829041629.69a3be62.davem@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1413 Lines: 41 David S. Miller wrote: >On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:50:17 +0200 >Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > >>On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 04:14, David T Hollis wrote: >> >> >>>If a driver is converted to use ethtool_ops, it does not seem to have >>>the ability to support mii-tool any longer. RedHat uses mii-tool to >>>check for link before running dhclient so that you don't have to wait >>>forever for dhclient to timeout if the connection is down (laptops, >>>etc). >>> >>> >>this is legacy; the road to the future for this is ethtool + the link >>status change notification stuff >> >> > >Besides, the original claim is false. You can still support all >the other ioctls however you want, even the MII ones, after >enabling ethtool_ops in a driver. > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > Thanks for the pointer. I didn't realize I could still have the old ioctl handler and just not worry about the ethool portion of it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/