From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Fuzzey Subject: Re: SMC91x: forcing speed Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:42:47 +0200 Message-ID: <4A2D85D7.6050509@gmail.com> References: <4A27E20C.4020603@endian.se> <20090608.142257.141336772.davem@davemloft.net> Reply-To: mfuzzey@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: richard.rojfors@endian.se, nico@cam.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f210.google.com ([209.85.219.210]:40351 "EHLO mail-ew0-f210.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751838AbZFHVms (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:42:48 -0400 Received: by ewy6 with SMTP id 6so4552717ewy.37 for ; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:42:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090608.142257.141336772.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Miller wrote: >> 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. > Yes I sure could. But I don't currently need a initramfs for anything else - adding one would complicate the build and boot process. IMHO the place for board specific hacks is in the board specifc startup code - am I wrong? Regards, Martin