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

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Message-Id: <20121229.173530.463452112273354773.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:35:30 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	fbl@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...nulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] team: add ethtool support

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:29:45 -0800

> 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.

Agreed, ethtool stats should _ONLY_ report device specific
statistics.
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