Messages in this thread |  | | From | Tim Hockin <> | Subject | Re: Question: Etherenet Link Detection | Date | Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:49:44 -0700 (PDT) |
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> 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.
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