Re: [PATCH] 3c59x and resume

Xavier Bestel (xavier.bestel@free.fr)
25 Mar 2002 12:53:12 +0100


le lun 25-03-2002 à 12:34, Joachim Breuer a écrit :
> Being able to redetect a pulled card put in a different slot as a
> "known" one giving it the same eth<i> (and associated WOL etc. config)
> as before would of course be nice, but I can't see how this can be
> cleanly done over reboots.

Some may say that being able to give the same eth<i> to the same bus
position, even after swapping the card for a new one, is more important
- think of production machines which can't afford being off-service for
too long. You just shutdown, swap the cards, poweron and you go. No
reconfig, that's how it should run.

Xav

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