On Wednesday 12 January 2005 8:47 am, Petko Manolov wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, David Brownell wrote: > > > The bridge code was able to detect the link coming back up, as if > > maybe it were talking directly to the MII and not needing to rely > > You mean the user level code running on the same machine that has the > pegasus thingie plugged in?
No -- CONFIG_BRIDGE. The "brctl" tool just administers the kernel infrastructure for 802.1d bridging. There's not even a kernel task associated with it, much less a userspace one. > Now this is interesting. Probably it's worth looking back in csets for > the past few months and see where all that comes from. I didn't see any changes that should obviously have any effect on link detection, but there were other ethtool updates and code cleanups. (Talking of cleanups: the !MII #ifdefs can be deleted, now that Kconfig forcibly enables MII.) - Dave ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
