netdev - Re: ethtool TODO list

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Message-Id: <20160712.113406.1402587122290887574.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 12 Jul 2016 11:34:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	linville@...driver.com
Cc:	jorge.garcia.gonzalez@...il.com, jiri@...nulli.us,
	ben@...adent.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ethtool TODO list - additional info

From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:12:52 -0400

> I haven't heard a strong case for why it is necessary.

Stats on large scale setups/systems is problematic and ethtool
is a part of that problem.

Extensibility in general suffers because of the ioctl() interface as
well.

For getting ethtool settings or stats, we have no clean filtering
mechanism.

I could go on and on...

I think before any new features are added to ethtool, we move over to
the netlink based interface and lock the existing ioctl() API in stone.