On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:40:34 +0530
"Amit S. Kale" [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Stephen,

This patch looks good. 

ioctls: NetXen chip is far more generic and will eventually show a significant 
amount of functionality in different products. We need ioctl analysis for 
user level tools that can tell states of registers etc. Removing ioctls all 
together will make any analysis from userland extremely difficult.

Use (and extend) existing ethtool interface to get registers and statistics.

Does anyone have ideas on improving this ioctl interface?

Thanks.
-Amit