Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:56:50 -0400
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] cfg80211: firmware and hardware version
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On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 04:33:19PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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...

Oh, yes!  Missed those in the noise...

John
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