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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mii-tool gigabit support.
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:55:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4519A1D6.1050802@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060926145113.7a6791c8@freekitty>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The mii-tool utility seems to be abandoned and unmaintained?
> 
> Here is a version that does standard 1000baseT support.
> 	http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/prototypes/mii-tool.tar.bz2

Not really.  I would rather leave it as-is, and deprecate it in favor of 
ethtool.

I want to keep binary ABI compat, but long term, move away from having 
userspace directly bitbang hardware registers.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-26 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-26 21:51 mii-tool gigabit support Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-26 21:55 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-09-26 22:09   ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-27 13:00     ` David Acker
2006-09-27 15:00       ` Auke Kok
2006-09-27 16:20         ` Jeff Kirsher
2006-09-27 17:08       ` Rick Jones
2006-09-27 17:50         ` Auke Kok
2006-09-27 17:57           ` Rick Jones
2006-09-27 18:05             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-09-27 18:42               ` Auke Kok
2006-09-28 12:10                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-09-27 20:26         ` David Acker
2006-09-27 19:24   ` dean gaudet
2006-09-27 19:31     ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-27 19:32     ` Auke Kok
2006-09-27 19:37       ` dean gaudet
2006-09-29 16:12       ` David Hollis
2006-09-29 17:12         ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-29 17:54           ` Rick Jones
2006-10-01 14:31             ` Michael Tokarev
2006-09-27 19:15 ` dean gaudet

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