[PATCH] PPC64 iSeries virtual ethernet proc files

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at pobox.com
Mon Jun 7 23:21:00 EST 2004


Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> From: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>
> This patch just adds back some of the iserires_veth proc files to provide
> information to user space (particularly Kudzu) to allow the virtual
> ethernets to be discovered.  These files existed in a 2.4 version of this
> driver that was shipped by some distros.


kudzu can find this stuff with ethtool, without adding this code.

This code isn't needed in 2.6.x.

	Jeff


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