Re: PATCH: ethtool MII helpers

2001-06-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:24:36AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Sure, and that's planned. Wanna send me a patch for it? :) > > Possibly, but I wonder if this is a kernel-space problem or not. Why > not put all the smarts into userland for it? I meant, send me a

Re: PATCH: ethtool MII helpers

2001-06-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Donald Becker wrote: > I was on vacation, and thus didn't have the opportunity to comment earlier. Thanks a bunch for your comments here. > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > - You are proposing some caching for the MII registers. I suppose that you > > > would like to have this c

Re: PATCH: ethtool MII helpers

2001-06-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bogdan Costescu wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > - I don't know what the long-term plan is about ethtool vs. MII ioctl's. > If you do plan to replace completely the MII ioctl's, there should be a > way to access _all_ MII registers provided by the PHY, even if you do this > in a

Re: PATCH: ethtool MII helpers

2001-06-12 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Comments appreciated. Some general comments first, the others are spread through the code. - I don't know what the long-term plan is about ethtool vs. MII ioctl's. If you do plan to replace completely the MII ioctl's, there should be a way to access _al