Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:41:13 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: ethtool documentation |
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Abraham vd Merwe <abraham@2d3d.co.za> wrote: | What is the difference between the supported and advertising fields? | What is MII? (as in the SUPPORTED_MII feature?).
MII: (is this a serious question ?): [from a National Semi. ethernet repeater design Application Note] The Medium Independent Interface, as specified in the IEEE 802.3u/D5.3 standard, is designed to support the PHY/MAC interface.
| > ETHTOOL_GEEPROM | > ETHTOOL_SEEPROM | > | > Get/set EEPROM data. These commands expect a 'struct ethtool_eeprom | > *' | > argument. This struct has a magic number, an offset and length | > pair, and a | > data field. If the offset+length are longer than the maximum size, | > the extra is silently ignored. | | Wouldn't it have been better to make this 'n character device which can | be read from / written to just like a normal file (/dev/nvram-like | interface) - | that way applications can actually use unused eeprom space.
I wouldn't care for this. There's nothing 'normal' about this EEPROM space, and apps generally won't know where there might be some 'unused eeprom space'.
-- ~Randy
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