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Message-ID: <1245862760.12000.507.camel@nseg_linux_HP1.broadcom.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:59:20 -0700 From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com> To: "Rick Jones" <rick.jones2@...com> cc: "Naohiro Ooiwa" <nooiwa@...aclelinux.com>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2: Fix the behavior of ethtool when ONBOOT=no On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 09:43 -0700, Rick Jones wrote: > Naohiro Ooiwa wrote: > > Hi Michael > > > > I found a little bug. > > > > When configure in ifcfg-eth* is ONBOOT=no, > > the behavior of ethtool command is wrong. > > > > # grep ONBOOT /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2 > > ONBOOT=no > > # ethtool eth2 | tail -n1 > > Link detected: yes > > > > I think "Link detected" should be "no". > > Why? Sure, there is no IP on the link, but does that mean the link is > otherwise unusable? Is ethtool only about IP status? > Once the device is closed, we no longer keep track of the link state and no longer have register access to determine the link state. So we assume it is down. In reality, it may still be up if WoL is enabled or management firmware is running, but the driver can no longer keep track of it. If we have to assume one or the other, I think it is more correct to assume it is down. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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