Re: upgrade to rawhide report
Alan Cox (alan(a)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