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. -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
