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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Subject: Re: mii-tool gigabit support.
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:54:54 -0700
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2) develop some style
>>of register description definition type of text file, maybe XML, maybe
>>INI style or something stored in /etc/ethtool as <drivername>.conf or
>>something like that.  This way, ethtool doesn't have to be
>>changed/updated/patched/likely-bug-added for every single device known
>>to man.  
>>
>>Just a thought.
> 
>  
> We could switch to shared libraries like 'tc' uses.

 From a practical standpoint is shipping a new config file or a new shared 
library all that much different from a new ethtool binary?

rick