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 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
