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Re: initial acenic ZC cleanup

To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: initial acenic ZC cleanup
From: Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 09 Mar 2001 03:21:33 +0100
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Jeff Garzik's message of "Thu, 08 Mar 2001 17:15:35 -0500"
References: <200103082147.f28LlS301042@itanic.thepuffingroup.com> <15015.65092.349145.143015@pizda.ninka.net> <d3g0gnzzv7.fsf@lxplus012.cern.ch> <3AA80487.3C7E26A6@mandrakesoft.com>
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>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Jeff> Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> The functionality has been there for ages via the ethtool
>> interface, however it was never added to the official ethtool since
>> you at the time seemed reluctant to move ethtool to include/linux
>> from include/asm-sparc.

Jeff> ethtool is now public for all arches in 2.4.0.

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.

Jes

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