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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 02:06:28 +0000 From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> To: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> CC: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, e1000-devel list <e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: Should we report bus width/speed via ethtool? On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 13:35 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > It seems the only way to get the current pci-e bus speed & width > in ixgbe (and probably many other NICs) is by parsing output > of lspci -vvv. > > I'd personally find it easier if this info were available via > ethtool API. > > Any opinions on adding this info? I was thinking something like: [...] This is nothing specific to network devices, so putting it in ethtool info is totally inappropriate. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- 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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