netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 5/8] net/ncsi: Dump NCSI packet statistics

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Date:   Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:58:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, joe@...ches.com, kubakici@...pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 5/8] net/ncsi: Dump NCSI packet statistics

From: Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:38:12 +1000

> (1) ethtool usually dumps statistics collected by hardware, but this
> debugfs file dumps the statistics of packets seen (collected) by
> software.

ethtool is not strictly for hardware statistics, it's often used for
software maintained values