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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