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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: mii-tool gigabit support.
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:55:34 -0400
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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