netdev - Re: the future of ethtool

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Date:	Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:14:02 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: the future of ethtool

On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 12:44 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
[...]
> My views are simple:
> 
> Ethtool needs to be an extension of existing netlink API for interfaces.
>   - handles multiple values per transaction
>   - extensible
[...]

Are you suggesting to send and receive the existing ethtool command and
result structures (with some wrapping) through netlink?  Or some larger
change to the API?

Ben.

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