Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 26 Sep 2001 17:10:07 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Question: Etherenet Link Detection |
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Tim Hockin wrote: > > > It's traditionally been defined as MII information, but that's > > awfully slow, so some Ethernet controllers make it available > > in a quicker manner. > > > > ethtool might do this (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/); > > I don't know for sure. > > The only interface to this is through MII, unless we want to add an ETHTOOL > style ioctl to get the link status. This means, however, that every driver > that wants to report this needs to support at least a subset of ethtool > ioctls, which VERY FEW do.
Right. I think that Jeff was thinking about this for 2.5 (what's that?), but I'm not trying to speak for Jeff.
Or maybe this has already been discussed on these mailing lists: linux-net@vger.kernel.org or netdev@oss.sgi.com
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