netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: hyperv: Add attributes to show RX/TX indirection table

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Message-Id: <20200717.095535.195550343235350259.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:55:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     haiyangz@...rosoft.com
Cc:     stephen@...workplumber.org, Song.Chi@...rosoft.com,
        kys@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com, wei.liu@...nel.org,
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        john.fastabend@...il.com, kpsingh@...omium.org,
        linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: hyperv: Add attributes to show RX/TX
 indirection table

From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:18:11 +0000

> Also in some minimal installation, "ethtool" may not always be
> installed.

This is never an argument against using the most well suited API for
exporting information to the user.

You can write "minimal" tools that just perform the ethtool netlink
operations you require for information retrieval, you don't have to
have the ethtool utility installed.