On Mon 2009-02-16 14:23:41, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 18:20 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > what this needs is a separation between "interface down, all off" and > > "interface down enough so that link detection works". > > Some NICs can go all the way down and still do link detection, others > > cannot. This is obviously something the driver will know, nothing else > > in the system should know. > > Sure, my point was just that the driver cannot make the decision to go > all-off (and thus not detect link) without some kind of user setting > allowing it to do so. Maybe we need ifconfig eth0 reallyreallydown ? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
