[ECOS] Re: How to get Ethernet link status?

Grant Edwards grante@visi.com
Tue Dec 16 21:15:00 GMT 2008


On 2008-12-16, damien millescamps <damien.millescamps@gmail.com> wrote:

> you need to call _eth_phy_state(eth_phy_access_t *f) The
> argument being a pointer to the structure handling the PHY
> read and write of your device.

I don't understand what is meant by "the structure handling the
PHY read and write".

In all the platforms I work with, the link status is
information internal to the Ethernet driver, and I don't see
anything in the Ethernet driver API that allows that
information to be read by applications.

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