On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:01:05PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > 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. Except for a couple of ioctls like DRVINFO this isnt true. Some cards do maintain link state in D3, others don't bother which means we can't just flip the chip on and off. Alan
