On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 14:30 -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote: [...] > * nameif: can be replaced by "ip link", not sure if it's worth the > effort (does anybody actually use it?) Never heard of it, and it seems redundant with udev now. There's also ifrename. > Problematic tools: > * mii-tool: it could be dropped and replaced by a pointer to ethtool as > it's not meant to be used automatically by scripts. On the other hand, > it's distributed as a stand-alone tool [0] and we could do the same. [...] Note that ethtool cannot yet provide all of the information mii-tool does (#511392). I hope to submit patches to the kernel and ethtool to fix this, though. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer
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