Hi Don, Scott and Shannon,

Many thanks for all your help, ethtool -i is now showing the correct 
information.
Very much appreciated.

Martin

On 2014-01-07 20:07, Nelson, Shannon wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Martin Wheldon [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 9:46 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe master disable timeout
>>
>> Hi Don,
>>
>> A little tricky for me as this box only has 2 interfaces and both 
>> use
>> this driver,
>> I'm also 1.5 hours drive from it.
>
> FYI - just a quick hint that might help your testing.  You can bind
> and unbind specific devices from a driver on the fly instead of
> relying on modprobe and rmmod.  For example, you can be logged in
> remotely through one of your interfaces using ixgbe, load the new
> ixgbe driver, unbind the other interface from ixgbe (this looks to
> that single device the same as an rmmod), then bind it to ixgbe-new.
>
>       # insmod ixgbe-new
>               No devices are probed as they are already assigned to ixgbe
>       # echo -n "0000:0e:00.1" > 
> /sys/module/ixgbe/drivers/pci:ixgbe/unbind
>               Remove 0e:00.1 from ixgbe
>       # echo -n "0000:0e:00.1" > 
> /sys/module/ixgbe-new/drivers/pci:ixgbe-new/bind
>               Assign the device to the new driver and start the probe()
>
> See http://lwn.net/Articles/143397/ for details.
>
> sln
>
>
> !DSPAM:9,52cc4580348784471410393!


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