On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 17:53 +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > severity 301239 serious > tags 301239 + help > tags 301239 + wheezy > thanks > > Due the growing number of computers with build-in gigabit ethernet > adapters, I discussed with Alexander (the maintainer of mii-diag) > whether mii-diag should be part of Wheezy if #301239 is not fixed. We > both agreed that mii-diag should not be released with Wheezy unless > gigabit ethernet support is added to it. [...]
There are also a lot of network interfaces that don't have MDIO-managed PHYs, and then there are 10G PHYs with a different register set (see IEEE 802.3 clause 45). This is why Linux provides the ethtool API to get PHY state with a little more abstraction. I suggest that you refer to ethtool as the preferred tool for modern network drivers, but leave mii-diag around for old drivers that don't support the ethtool API. I don't see any need to remove it as it should still work for that old hardware. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug
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