netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/8] ethtool: add pause frame stats

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Date:   Mon, 14 Sep 2020 04:08:14 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, mkubecek@...e.cz,
        michael.chan@...adcom.com, tariqt@...dia.com, saeedm@...dia.com,
        alexander.duyck@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/8] ethtool: add pause frame stats

> DSA used to override the "ethtool -S" callback of the host port, and
> append its own CPU port counters to that.

That was always a hack. It was bound to break sooner or later.

Ido planned to add statistics to devlink. I hope we can make use of
that to replace the CPU port statistics, and also add DSA port
statistics, since these interfaces do exist in devlink.

      Andrew