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Message-ID: <1375955079.2853.1.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 11:44:39 +0200 From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> To: Thomas Martitz <thomas.martitz@....fraunhofer.de> CC: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Preferred method for configuration On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 07:56 +0200, Thomas Martitz wrote: > Resent with list in CC. > > Am 08.08.2013 07:41, schrieb Joe Perches: > > On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 07:32 +0200, Thomas Martitz wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I'm developing a NIC driver and currently export some custom > >> configuration settings and actions (e.g. enabling a loopback mode) via > >> sysfs. > > > > Is there some reason you don't want to use ethtool? > > > > > > It doesn't allow for custom settings does it? For standards stuff I'm > sure going to use ethtool. You can always propose extensions to ethtool. Note that the ethtool 'features' API already allows setting loopback and there is a 'private flags' API through which you can expose up to 32 arbitrary named flags if they're really not at all generic. 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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