netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 5/8] net/ncsi: Dump NCSI packet statistics

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Date:   Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:33:09 +1000
From:   Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, joe@...ches.com,
        kubakici@...pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 5/8] net/ncsi: Dump NCSI packet statistics

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 05:58:58PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>From: Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:38:12 +1000
>
>> (1) ethtool usually dumps statistics collected by hardware, but this
>> debugfs file dumps the statistics of packets seen (collected) by
>> software.
>
>ethtool is not strictly for hardware statistics, it's often used for
>software maintained values
>

Thanks for the confirm. I'll move the functionalities introduced by
this patchset to ethtool in next respin, as discussed in another
thread.

Cheers,
Gavin