netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] team: add ethtool support

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Date:	Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:29:45 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] team: add ethtool support

On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:19:26 -0200
Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com> wrote:

> This patch adds few ethtool operations to team driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>

What is the motivation for this? Is there an application that depends
on ethtool (versus netlink, or /proc)?

Sorry, I see no point in providing ethtool statistics for generic data that is already
reported by existing netlink and other infrastructure. The purpose of ethtool
statistics is to report device specific that is not available through the normal
generic statistics.

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