netdev - Re: [PATCH] Make possible speeds known to ethtool

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Date:	Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:19:53 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	jgarzik@...ox.com
Cc:	bhutchings@...arflare.com, rick.jones2@...com, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make possible speeds known to ethtool

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com> wrote:
>
> For generic net stack flags outside the driver's control, that can 
> easily be added to ethtool_{get,set}_flags() overriding or ignoring 
> whatever the driver may have done.

To use the flags interface as is, you'd have to go through every
single driver to get them to call ethtool_op_set_flags.  I'm sorry
but I'm sticking with the current interface.

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