Re: [PATCH 09/24] net, diet: Make ethtool optional

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:11:40PM -0400, David Miller wrote:

From: Andi Kleen <redacted>
Date: Mon,  5 May 2014 15:25:58 -0700

quoted

Small embedded systems don't need ethtool, so make it optional.

You can't do anything non-trivial with an ethernet device without
ethtool.

You can configure the IP address and transmit and receive packets,
and that is all a small embedded system is ever interested in.

Remember these systems don't have a shell, they just run a 
single application that only does one thing.

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.