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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:47:56 -0400 From: Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com> To: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com> CC: Linux Network Development list <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: a maze of twisty stats, most different Rick Jones wrote: > It seems that every driver, when providing support for ethtool -S > functionality, has considerable lattitude when it comes to the stats > provided. Clearly this is very nice for the driver writer(s) as it > allows them to provide whatever stats they feel are most "natural" for > their NIC(s) and name them as they see fit. This is deliberate. Ethtool operates at a very primitive level, and generally does little or no translation between the hardware registers and userspace. > However :) > > From the standpoint of someone looking from the outside, say someone > wanting to consume ethtool -S statistics, it seems to be a big jumble. > > Might there be a way to bring those two camps together? Is there > already, with the same wide availabilty of ethtool, and I've just not > seen it? ifconfig comes to mind, for one. What statistics are you looking for exactly? -- Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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