Alan Cox (alan@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > 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. 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. Bill
