Alan Cox (alan@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > 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. That's what I'm saying. The only ethtool ioctl kudzu uses is GDRVINFO. Bill
