On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:11:40PM -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: Andi Kleen <a...@firstfloor.org> > Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 15:25:58 -0700 > > > Small embedded systems don't need ethtool, so make it optional. > > You can't do anything non-trivial with an ethernet device without > ethtool.
You can configure the IP address and transmit and receive packets, and that is all a small embedded system is ever interested in. Remember these systems don't have a shell, they just run a single application that only does one thing. -Andi -- a...@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
