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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 08:54:56 +0000
From: Hariprasad Kelam <hkelam@...vell.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
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Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH V2 3/4] octeontx2-pf: ethtool: Implement
get_fec_stats
On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 10:44:08AM +0530, Hariprasad Kelam wrote:
> The current implementation is such that FEC statistics are reported as
> part of ethtool statistics that is the user can fetch them from the
> below command
>
> "ethtool -S eth0"
>
> Fec Corrected Errors:
> Fec Uncorrected Errors:
>
> This patch removes this logic
What might break the ABI, if anybody is using these statistics, or has a dumb parser and just looks at entry 42 which is now a different entry.
So i think you need to keep these two, and additionally report them the correct way via get_fec_stats.
Make sense, that's a good point .
will wait for a day for other feedback and submit V3.
Thanks,
Hariprasad k
Andrew
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