Re: [PATCH 3/4] atl1: Main C file for Attansic L1 driver
From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Mon Nov 20 2006 - 14:36:06 EST
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
Using common MII code is good, but one problem with the existing MII code is that
it doesn't work when device is down. This makes it impossible to set speed/duplex
before device comes up.
That's not true at all. drivers/net/mii.c uses caller-provided locking
in all cases, and there is nothing that prevents the common code from
being called when the interface is down.
You are probably thinking about all the netif_running() checks found in
the drivers, particularly in the ->begin() hook.
Jeff
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