netdev - Re: ethtool: missing implementation of n_priv

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Date:	Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:10:30 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
From:	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
cc:	"jgarzik@...hat.com" <jgarzik@...hat.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Wyborny, Carolyn" <carolyn.wyborny@...el.com>
Subject: Re: ethtool: missing implementation of n_priv_flags

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
> > Was just looking at implementing the driver private flags to add a new feature to 
> > a driver.
> > 
> > It appears that nothing in the core ethtool.c ever accesses or prints n_priv_flags, 
> > even if a driver assigns it (which none in the kernel currently do)
> [...]
> 
> You mean net/core/ethtool.c?  Or the ethtool utility?

The ethtool utility (the app that would print the 1-1 match between bits 
and strings)
 
> If you set it in your get_drvinfo() operation then it will be copied out.
> As for the ethtool utility, I've implemented some generic flag parsing and
> printing functionality so it shouldn't be too hard to use that for private
> flags.

Right, I see the code where it gets copied into drvinfo in the kernel but 
nothing ever prints it on the userspace side.

We'll take a shot at an implementation in the ethtool proper and post it 
(hopefully soon).  I imagine it will just be printed when one runs the 
command 
# ethtool ethX

and the set side will probably be implemented as part of -s

# ethtool -s ethX pflag [0-0xFFFFFFFF]

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