* Ben Hutchings [2012-03-04 03:44 +0000]: > 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's arguments and his suggestion are plausible. Alex, please consider running "bts severity 301239 important" :) Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
