At Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:54:41 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > netif_running() means the device is open() (which generally means the > interface is up). Ok. That's what I thought. I use "ifplugd" and I thought that the interface was down as long as no cable is connected, but it seems the interface is up as soon as "ifplugd" is running. > You need to be a bit careful here. The chip might be off (power > managed). > > I would suggest you do something a bit like change_mtu there, though you > don't actually need to take the locks, only the mutex, and please do > test gp->running before touching the hardware (with the lock held). Ok, I changed it. It should be safe now? Thanks, Ruben
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