netdev - Re: the future of ethtool

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Message-ID: <20101115131453.16958d68@nehalam>
Date:	Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:14:53 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.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, 15 Nov 2010 21:14:02 +0000
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:

> 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?

The existing ioctl base API should be kept as legacy and something
better developed.
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