Re: suggested forcedeth updates....

["Alexander Zapatka" <alexzapatka@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

thats a great idea!  except i dont know how to implement it in a patch :)  
hope it makes it in to the next version.



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On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:07:15PM -0500, Alexander Zapatka wrote:

> that way you can modprobe/insmod with debug=1 and debuging works... or 
you
> can just load it, or load it with debug=0 and no debuging info is 
printed.
>
> just thought it might be a nice addition.

Even better would be to use the NETIF_MSG_* flags defined in
linux/netdevice.c and to be able to use ethtool to change the setting at
runtime.

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