Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] cfg80211: firmware and hardware version

From: Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:33:19 +0100

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 11:18 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
[...]
> > But here are the features which I doubt we will ever use:
> > 
> >         ethtool -s|--change DEVNAME     Change generic options
> >                 [ speed %%d ]
> >                 [ duplex half|full ]
> >                 [ port tp|aui|bnc|mii|fibre ]
> >                 [ autoneg on|off ]
> >                 [ advertise %%x ]
> >                 [ phyad %%d ]
> >                 [ xcvr internal|external ]
> >                 [ wol p|u|m|b|a|g|s|d... ]
> >                 [ sopass %%x:%%x:%%x:%%x:%%x:%%x ]
> >                 [ msglvl %%d ] 
> >         ethtool -a|--show-pause DEVNAME Show pause options
> >         ethtool -A|--pause DEVNAME      Set pause options
> >                 [ autoneg on|off ]
> >                 [ rx on|off ]
> >                 [ tx on|off ]
> 
> I agree that the above are ethernet-specific.
[...]

Message level isn't and WoL arguably isn't.  It's a shame that these
original ethtool settings are still bundled together...

Ben.

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