From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, jeff@garzik.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com
Subject: Re: [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:24:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217456666.18911.145.camel@calx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080730.143532.124324888.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 14:35 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> This change means you can't configure nearly all of the features on
> your ethernet card. You can't even configure the link parameters
> without ethtool support.
Which is big fat don't-care for the vast majority of users. Various
popular distros don't even install the tool by default.
Embedded devices care even less. You'd be fairly hard-pressed to find,
say, a BluRay player that lets you set the link duplex and checksum
offloading somewhere deep deep down in the setup menu. And good luck
trying to do that -over the wire- to a headless device. Unless the
device is a serious router, you're -never- going to see anyone go to the
trouble of exporting such functionality.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-30 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-30 19:39 [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support akpm
2008-07-30 20:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-30 20:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-30 21:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-30 21:35 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-30 21:48 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 21:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-30 22:04 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 23:35 ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-30 21:57 ` David Miller
2008-07-30 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 22:33 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:39 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:43 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:49 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:47 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 15:36 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-31 15:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-31 16:11 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-31 18:17 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-30 21:35 ` David Miller
2008-07-30 21:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 22:24 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2008-07-30 22:37 ` David Miller
2008-07-30 23:05 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-30 23:21 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 1:10 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-31 1:23 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:22 ` Kalle Valo
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