Re: PATCH: ethtool MII helpers

From: Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 00:10:37 EST


On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 01:34:59PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

    Initial draft of a helper which uses generic elements present in several
    net drivers to implement ethtool ioctl support in a minimum amount of
    code.
    
    I have included a sample implementation in the epic100 driver, to
    illustrate how these helpers may be used. This should make it easier to
    implement support across 10/100 hardware which uses primarily an MII
    phy.
    
    Comments appreciated.

Can someone explain to me why we have ethtool and mii-tool? Can we
not extend ethtool for the mii-tool stuff, even if only at userland?

  --cw
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