[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] netfront: support ethtool's get_link()

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
        I hadn't spotted that netfront already supports some ethtool ops. That
was just dumb; apologies.

        More correct patch attached.

Thanks,
Mark.

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 16:16 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi,
>       Attached is a very simple patch to support ethtool's get_link()
> operation. This allows things like NetworkManager's and anaconda's
> carrier detection code to work with netfront.
> 
>       It seems sane to take the simple approach of reporting the link as
> active as soon as we've connected to the backend device. It's irrelevant
> whether the physical device in dom0 has link, since there could well be
> someone else on the bridge responding.

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