netdev - Re: HW communication debugging interface

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Date:	Mon, 5 Oct 2015 17:18:21 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:	"Rosen, Rami" <rami.rosen@...el.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"eladr@...lanox.com" <eladr@...lanox.com>,
	"idosch@...lanox.com" <idosch@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: HW communication debugging interface - ideas?

Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 04:58:42PM CEST, andrew@...n.ch wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 04:55:42PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 04:49:41PM CEST, andrew@...n.ch wrote:
>> >> >Are you referring here to messages of the EMAD protocol ?
>> >
>> >I know nothing about this protocol.....
>> >
>> >Does it at least use standard Ethernet framing? Source and Destination
>> >header and an EtherType which mean EMAD?
>> 
>> Yep, but that does not really matter. I believe we should find debugging
>> interface which is protocol agnostic. Just arbitrary messages
>> monitoring.
>
>Hi Jiri
>
>O.K, it is just that you mentioned wireshark. Passing the frames to
>network interface taps would make this trivial.

That is true. But using netlink+nlmon would do the same.
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