From: Suzuki <suzuki@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:45:38 +0530 > What should be the behaviour of "ethtool -t <ethX>" after the "<ethX>" > has been "ifdown" -ed ? Should the tests still pass ? or Should it fail ? > > The Tg3 driver makes the test failing if the device is not running. So, > was wondering if this is an expected behaviour or not ? I would say it's implementation dependant. Some chips are able to keep the link status up and probe when it is down, others might not be able to either because it's too complicated to do so or because the PHY or the whole chip is powered down at this time. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
