On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:55:55 -0700, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]>
> Some hardware simply *can't* easily do this.  Some drivers are really 
> stale and haven't been updated:
> 
> * dnet only does link state reporting on certain cards (this with MII 
> transceivers)
 
This one is my fault. Unfortunately the PHYs were so varied on these
devices that adding in link state reporting for all variants was
prohibitively expensive.

> * spwr doesn't do it all (but spwr could easily be improved, and indeed 
> it ought to be.)

I've actually started the process of emancipating spwr. Once this
is finished, the 'new' spwr will support all of the modern GLDv3
entry points, including mac_link_update and of course m_setprop/m_getprop.

Steve
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