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Re: initial acenic ZC cleanup

To: Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: initial acenic ZC cleanup
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 22:19:36 -0500
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: MandrakeSoft
References: <200103082147.f28LlS301042@itanic.thepuffingroup.com> <15015.65092.349145.143015@pizda.ninka.net> <d3g0gnzzv7.fsf@lxplus012.cern.ch> <3AA80487.3C7E26A6@mandrakesoft.com> <d34rx3fzrm.fsf@lxplus015.cern.ch>
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Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Jeff> Does ethtool need to be updated for you?

> A little, it needs to be taught about the tuning parameters for the
> AceNIC. We probably should put a list of  NIC specific tuning items in
> there so it knows how to grog the different cards' different
> parameters.

If they are NIC-specific, then you should just use ioctls...  It's a
silly redirection to add NIC-specific stuff to the ethtool ioctl, when
you could just add a private ioctl.

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