netdev - Re: Preferred method for configuration

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Date:	Thu, 8 Aug 2013 11:44:39 +0200
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Thomas Martitz <thomas.martitz@....fraunhofer.de>
CC:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Preferred method for configuration

On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 07:56 +0200, Thomas Martitz wrote:
> Resent with list in CC.
> 
> Am 08.08.2013 07:41, schrieb Joe Perches:
> > On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 07:32 +0200, Thomas Martitz wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm developing a NIC driver and currently export some custom
> >> configuration settings and actions (e.g. enabling a loopback mode) via
> >> sysfs.
> >
> > Is there some reason you don't want to use ethtool?
> >
> >
> 
> It doesn't allow for custom settings does it? For standards stuff I'm 
> sure going to use ethtool.

You can always propose extensions to ethtool.

Note that the ethtool 'features' API already allows setting loopback and
there is a 'private flags' API through which you can expose up to 32
arbitrary named flags if they're really not at all generic.

Ben.

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