From: Terry Dawson (fqbuphs@fleximage.fr)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 00:08:44 EET
Jan Wasserbauer wrote:
> I think it would be very nice to have also unified API for drivers. Now
> many drivers have own configuration utilities which is not wery good.
> Most of drivers just need irq/io/dma/number of channels (which in some
> cases could be replaced by just com/lpt number).
> Plus baudrate, half/full-duplex, txd etc. which should be urgently
> replaced by one configuration utility since all drivers need that.
I'd personally like to see as many of these parameters configurable
using either 'ifconfig' or the 'ip' tools, or through /proc/sys/net.
We should be looking toward being as consistent with the rest of the
Linux networking standards as possible.
Terry
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