From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: SMC91x: forcing speed Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:08:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <4A2D85D7.6050509@gmail.com> <20090608.144445.72867560.davem@davemloft.net> <20090608.160658.58946145.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: mfuzzey@gmail.com, richard.rojfors@endian.se, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:57985 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753632AbZFIBIw (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:08:52 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([66.131.194.97]) by VL-MO-MR002.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KKY00GZJ5UPIK60@VL-MO-MR002.ip.videotron.ca> for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:08:49 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <20090608.160658.58946145.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, David Miller wrote: > From: Nicolas Pitre > Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:17:21 -0400 (EDT) > > > Wouldn't it be possible to accommodate those people with a generic > > ethtool module that simply interpret some kernel cmdline parameters in a > > uniform and maintainable way to apply some settings during kernel boot? > > And you could even write it and maintain it somewhere if you > like for other embedded people to use. :-) > > Once full featured, I'd be happy to include it. I have no need for such a thing myself at the moment so I won't do it. But at least you're open to the idea which is good, and now people with such a need have a hint. Nicolas