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SubjectRe: We have ethtool_ops, any thoughts on miitool_ops?
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:50:17 +0200
Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> 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.

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