On 12/13/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this patch actually fix any observeable problem?
Without the patch, ifconfig down leaves the physical link up, which confuses datacenter users who expect the link lights both on the NIC and the switch to go out when they bring an interface down. Furthermore, even though the phy is powered on, autonegotiation stops working, so a normally gigabit link might suddenly become 100 Mbit half-duplex when the interface goes down, and become gigabit when it comes up again. --Ed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
