netdev - Re: Bug: alx: Atheros AR8131/AR8151/AR8152/AR8161 Ethernet driver

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Date:	Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:32:38 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Kinley Dorji <kinleyd@...il.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug: alx: Atheros AR8131/AR8151/AR8152/AR8161 Ethernet driver

On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 03:43 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> > $ ethtool -S eth0
> > no stats available
> 
> It seems alx driver does not support stats.
> 
> (No ndo_get_stats() and no changes on netdev->stats embedded stats)
> 
> 
> drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c provides
> atl1c_get_stats() gathering hardware counters
> 
> CC Johannes Berg, let see if he has plan to add them on alx

I don't. There are some stats in the original code at
https://github.com/erikarn/alx, but I removed them because I didn't
really understand what was going on and don't really care much for the
stats in the system I'm using this device on - and based on the driver
I'm not sure I'd use the chip for 'serious' work anyway :)

FWIW, it had ndo_get_stats() but was updating the netdev->stats from
that handler and then returning them, which seemed a bit questionable.

johannes

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