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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. -- 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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