[kernel] bug#78: sorta fixed, for now

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          (code B ref 78); Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:33:01 GMT
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:28:10 -0700
From: Paul Bame <bame@fc.hp.com>
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mii-tool uses SIOCDEVPRIVATE-based ioctl() calls for which it's quite
difficult or impossible to write wrappers, and they've been superceeded
by the ETHTOOL ioctl()s.  So for now, the wide kernel simply returns
ENOSYS when someone attempts to use these private ioctl()s.