Re: ethtool and MII (was Re: initial acenic ZC cleanup)

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My apologies, I should have added to that last message:

However, if there are tuning parameters which are used across many
drivers, go ahead and support them via ethtool, which is the common
kernel place for such things now.

Note that you'll probably want to create new ETHTOOL_xxx commands, if
you need more than the four reserved dwords we have left in struct
ethtool_cmd.

Further, if these new commands are not specific mainly to ethernet
drivers (ie. if TR or arcnet drivers could use your new feature), you
should probably create a new sock ioctl, instead of messing around with
the ethtool interface at all...

WDYT?

        Jeff


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