From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Mackall Subject: Re: [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:24:26 -0500 Message-ID: <1217456666.18911.145.camel@calx> References: <200807301939.m6UJd5lT012610@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <20080730.143532.124324888.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53]:35376 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752395AbYG3W06 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:26:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080730.143532.124324888.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. =EF=BB=BF=EF= =BB=BFVarious 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 th= e trouble of exporting such functionality. --=20 Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.