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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 16:38:30 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com> To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>, Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...ulusnetworks.com>, Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, dborkman <dborkman@...hat.com>, ogerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>, jesse <jesse@...ira.com>, pshelar <pshelar@...ira.com>, azhou <azhou@...ira.com>, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, vyasevic <vyasevic@...hat.com>, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>, Shrijeet Mukherjee <shm@...ulusnetworks.com> Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 0/4] introduce infrastructure for support of switch chip datapath On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:23:18PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:04:37PM CEST, stephen@...workplumber.org wrote: > >On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 15:29:15 -0400 > >"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com> wrote: > > > >> I've seen the 'ethtool -S' example before and I guess it is valid. > >> Still, is it worth the confusion of having a mostly useless/unique > >> netdev just to reuse an ethtool ioctl? Maybe, I guess...? > > > >ethtool is actually the most worthless part of the API. > >It can't be monitored, is ioctl based but and the statistics are device > >dependent making them useless for monitoring applications. > > Has anyone actually been thinking about converting ethtool functionality > to netlink as well? I did some time ago. Most of it should be easy (more or less) > to do I believe. Seems like a good idea...but only if you promise to have it primarily accessed by a tool with a 2-letter name! :-) -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@...driver.com might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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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