On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:39:41PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Alan Cox (alan@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > Everything else has "open it, do stuff, close it". Making kudzu do this > > would fix a lot of bugs, and indeed SuSE seem to follow that rule in yast > > All kudzu is doing is running the ethtool 'tell me what driver you have' > ioctl. Which shouldn't really care one whit about the card's state. 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. Alan
