Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] virNetDevGetLinkInfo: Don't report link speed if NIC's down

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 08:46:59AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > The kernel's more broken than one would think. Various drivers report > various (usually spurious) values if the interface is down. While on > some we experience -EINVAL when read()-ing the speed sysfs file, with > other drivers we might get anything from 0 to UINT_MAX. If that's the > case it's better to not report link speed. Well, the interface is down > anyway. Wow, that's really awful. I think that warrants a bug report against the kernelt too since such inconsistency can't be useful to anyone.