Add ethtool to Busybox ?

Steven Shiau steven at nchc.org.tw
Thu Sep 4 08:43:43 UTC 2008


Hi Walter,
Thank you for asking.
Actually I need ethtool to do some network card testing in initrd (about 
PXE booting), that's why I proposed that idea.

Regards,
Steven.


walter harms wrote:
> hi Steven,
> 1. i am not the maintainer but these are the questions that came
>    to mine mind as i read your proposal.
> 
>  BB has is target audience in the embedded area.
>  Do you think that this is a really useful extension ?
>  why not port others like blktool also ?
>  are you interested in maintaining a kernel-tools section ?
> 
> re,
>  wh
> 
> 
> Steven Shiau schrieb:
>> Hi,
>> Ethtool (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel) is an useful tool. I
>> found in 2006 there was a try to include that:
>> http://bugs.busybox.net/view.php?id=789
>> Is that possible to include that in the future release of busybox ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.

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