On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 07:51:22AM -0800, Auke Kok wrote: > >I think you should cc e1000 maintainers, and perhaps provide a patch.... > I've read it and not come up with an answer due to some other issues at > hand. E1000 hardware works differently and this has been asked before, but > the cards itself are in low power state when down. Changing this to bring > up the link would make the card start to consume lots more power, which > would automatically suck enormously for anyone using a laptop. > > Unfortunately, we have no way to distinguish directly between mobile and > non-mobile adapters, since they are usually the same. > > Your application should really `ifconfig up` the device before checking for > link. Actually pushing the link up in userspace doesn't specifically help my applications, as I care about actual link status (as reported by ethtool). Is there no way to keep the link status correct (within 0.5 seconds), without bringing the card to full power? Maybe a timer that fires a proper check (with the power implications). Would a patch that adds a modparam (not enabled by default) running the behavior I'm after, be acceptable, so the e1000 driver can act identical to all of the other drivers? -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [email protected] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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