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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] net: add the nwhwconfig support
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:06:25 -0500 (EST)
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From: Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:01:40 +0100

> Network drivers support hardware level configuration via utilities such as
> ifconfig, ethtool and mii-tool. However sometimes these settings need to be
> adjusted before a file system is available (typically if the root file system
> uses NFS).

No way, use an initial ramdisk.