Matthew Miller (mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:54:43AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > > It looks like up through F12, initscripts required ethtool (so it was > > > > definately installed by default). I see this in the RPM changelog: > > > Still the case in RHEL5, FWIW. > > I'm assuming you mean RHEL 6; it just seemed too big of a change to debut > > in RHEL at the time we branched. However, it has worked pretty well in > > Fedora so far to just rely on the carrier attribute in sysfs. > > No, I mean in current RHEL5, ethtool is required by initscripts. Maybe that > happened somewhere in one of the point releases? The change to drop the required ethtool use in initscripts was in F-13... it's not something that would be backported to RHEL 5 ever (and almost certainly won't be backported to RHEL 6.) Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
