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Journal StarBar's Journal: Ethtool grows! 1

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Today I looked at ethtool 1.3 to be able to set some parameters on my Natsemi card. I soon discovered that not all the ioctls needed were in place, only one. Ethtool 1.3 is like 25 Kb after it has been 'strip'ed. Very nice for a small distribution! So either I have to upgrade my driver but that would force me prematurely to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.19. Instead I looked at ethtool 1.6 which seemed to have Natsemi support builtin. I compiled it only to discover that the whole binary was over 100Kb now! Geehhh, four times the size increased over 3 releases. And still I discovered that it required more ioctl:s by the driver too. Both versions were compiled linked statically with the uclibc (wrapper) toolchain. Amazing how things increases in size when they become popular. Good software should be small and Linux should fit on a floppy!
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  • I thought that after all of these years there wasn't an acronym or a shorthand name that I could not decipher.

    Dear sir, I think I managed to catch all of two or three of those terms you through around. . . .

    woh.

    Though I do agree with you on one point, software does have a horrible habit of bloating up through out releases, even if comparatively few features have been added. ^_^

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