Re: We have ethtool_ops, any thoughts on miitool_ops?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 04:14, David T Hollis wrote:
> If a driver is converted to use ethtool_ops, it does not seem to have 
> the ability to support mii-tool any longer.  RedHat uses mii-tool to 
> check for link before running dhclient so that you don't have to wait 
> forever for dhclient to timeout if the connection is down (laptops, 
> etc). 

this is legacy; the road to the future for this is ethtool + the link
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