There is a longstanding wishlist bug on ethtool: #386125 "Would like ethtool to be run at boot." I would like to address this with an if-pre-up script which uses settings passed by ifupdown from /etc/network/interfaces.
My initial thought was that the settings should all be prefixed by
"ethtool-":
ethtool-speed <speed>
ethtool-duplex half|full
ethtool-port <port>
ethtool-autoneg off|on [<advertise-mask>]
ethtool-wol <mode> [?<pass-key>]
ethtool-msglvl <level>
ethtool-pause <pause-settings...>
ethtool-coalesce <coalesce-settings...>
ethtool-ring <ring-settings...>
ethtool-offload <offload-settings...>
However, many settings exposed through the ethtool API and utility are
no longer Ethernet-specific and I'm not sure the user should really have
to care exactly what mechanism is being used to apply the settings. So
I would like to use the following names:
link-speed
link-duplex
ethernet-port
ethernet-autoneg
ethernet-wol
driver-message-level
ethernet-pause-*
hardware-irq-coalesce-*
hardware-dma-ring-*
offload-*
Does this seem reasonable or do you feel it would be polluting the
namespace of interface parameters?
Ben.
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