We have ethtool_ops, any thoughts on miitool_ops?

[David T Hollis]

If a driver is converted to use ethtool_ops, it does not seem to have 
the ability to support mii-tool any longer.  RedHat uses mii-tool to 
check for link before running dhclient so that you don't have to wait 
forever for dhclient to timeout if the connection is down (laptops, 
etc).  The typical way to support mii tool was to A) handle that case in 
the ethtool and call another big switch, or B) call the 
generic_mii_ioctl call with the mii struct to handle what you didn't 
handle under ethtool.    Some method similar to ethtool_ops would really 
be great.

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