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Message-ID: <20250805155550.3ed93078@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2025 15:55:50 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Dennis Chen <dechen@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, dchen27@...u.edu, davem@...emloft.net,
 edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com, andrew+netdev@...n.ch,
 petrm@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] netdevsim: Add support for ethtool stats
 and add

On Tue,  5 Aug 2025 17:33:53 -0400 Dennis Chen wrote:
> This series adds support for querying standard interface stats and
> driver-specific stats with ethtool -S. This allows hardware-independent
> testing of ethtool stats reporting. Driver-specific stats are incremented
> every 100ms once enabled through a debugfs toggle.
> 
> Also adds a selftest for ethtool -S for netdevsim.
> 
> The implementation of mock stats is heavily based on the mock L3 stats 
> support added by commit 1a6d7ae7d63c45("netdevsim: Introduce support for
> L3 offload xstats").
> 
> Note: Further replies will come from my school email address,
> dchen27@...u.edu, as I will soon lose access to my Red Hat email.

The tests for netdevsim must test something meaningful in the kernel.
This submission really looks like you need it to test some user space
code.
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