netdev - Re: Which ethtool methods should I implement?

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Date:   Mon, 19 Dec 2016 17:40:41 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Which ethtool methods should I implement?

On 12/19/2016 05:29 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> I'm adding support for ethtool to my driver
> (drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/emac/), and I can't find any meaningful
> HOWTO documentation, so I'm not sure which methods I need to implement.
> 
> Is there some minimal set of must-have ethtool methods that should be
> implemented?  Since I support phylib, I guess I should use
> phy_ethtool_get_link_ksettings and phy_ethtool_set_link_ksettings.  What
> else?

Ideally, everything that is supported by your HW, but I would with the
basic essential stuff that you would need in case someone reports
problems with your driver like:

- statistics (MAC for sure) and PHY (if possible), -S
- ability to restart auto-negotation (-r)
- reporting of driver information (-i)
- support toggling and reporting NETIF_F_* features -k/-K
-- 
Florian