Return-path: Received: from mail.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]:44205 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754965AbZJAPdS (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:33:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] cfg80211: firmware and hardware version From: Ben Hutchings To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Kalle Valo , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20091001151820.GA2895@tuxdriver.com> References: <20090924180048.14503.9579.stgit@tikku> <43e72e890909241320j592e347die8a14f8bdd962ffb@mail.gmail.com> <20090925044258.GA2722@tuxdriver.com> <43e72e890909250953r1714c79bsa679b96ca6f5797@mail.gmail.com> <20091001011340.GA3123@tuxdriver.com> <87fxa3qjt2.fsf@purkki.valot.fi> <20091001151820.GA2895@tuxdriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:33:19 +0100 Message-Id: <1254411199.2735.4.camel@achroite> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.