RE: Submission for S2io 10GbE driver

["Leonid Grossman" <leonid.grossman@xxxxxxxx>]

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> The ethtool diag stuff is more of a quick sanity test than anything 
> exhaustive.
> 
> I definitely want to discourage tons of test code in drivers, as its 
> code that users will almost-never run, it bloats the driver, 
> and can be 
> done with a special diag-only driver or diag program (or a 
> combination 
> of both).
> 
> A lot of the 10/100 drivers originated from Donald Becker, 
> who typically 
> creates a userland (i.e. separate) diag program for each 
> driver he writes.


I see the point; we'll go ahead and get rid of the loopback.
We actually have pretty extensive standalone diag tool that is based on
diag driver.

Thanks, Leonid


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>       Jeff
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