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From: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:02:05 +0200

> The smc91x driver already has ethtool support.
> However, as I stated in my original post, I don't want to use ethtool
> from userspace since I need to be able to use a NFS rootfs.

You can set the ethtool setting from an initramfs before the
NFS mount of the root filesystem occurs.