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On Mar 11, 2010, at 11:30 PM, Qing Li wrote:

>  What you raised is definitely a possibility and these fixes take the
>  similar approach. I am going to try and go through each of these
>  drivers in /sys/dev/ and converting them, very soon.

Is there any way we can pick up via an assertion that an interface =
driver has failed to implement this functionality? This has never been a =
historic requirement, so I suspect there are a lot of drivers floating =
around that fail to meet the requirement. Also, is this for IFT_ETHER =
only, or also other link types?

Robert=