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From: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: SMC91x: forcing speed
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:02:05 +0200
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> Martin Fuzzey wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a better way of doing this that would be acceptable for mainline?
>
> Look at include/linux/ethtool.h.
>

Thank you for your reply.

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.

So is there already a programmatic way of using the ethool interface
from the board specific setup code?
Or are you proposing adding a struct ethtool_cmd to smc91x_platdata ?

Another way I can think of is just to add a generic init() callback to
the platform data so that my board specific code can get at the
struct net_device * and then use the ethtool interface via dev->ethtool_ops.

Regards,

Martin