Kok, Auke wrote:
Deprecate mii-tool SIOCMIIREG ioctl. This ioctl is broken in e1000 and
ethtool has this functionality in working order.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This doesn't "deprecated" anything, it changes the ABI on a user's
machine by _removing_ ioctl handling code that used to be there.
What's broken, and what is needed to fix? Perhaps e1000 should instead
be limited to 10/100 networks/speeds?
Jeff
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