From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Naming devices
Date: 18 May 2003 18:48:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1053308881.3909.2.camel@rth.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305181822.51612.dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 18:22, Daniel Stekloff wrote:
> Just last week or so, Jim Keniston asked for comments on network device
> specific macros - netdev_printk. I thought these were handy when I was
> working on a system with 4 ethernet cards.
I don't understand how this is useful for this application.
If I put 1,000 e1000 cards into the machine, all the messages
scroll out of the dmesg buffer.
The only reliable source for this kind of information is ethtool.
The kernel message buffer is like IP datagram delivery in that it is
unreliable, whereas ethtool provides a stable source for this
information.
All I hear is that "hey we're making printk provide the same
information as ethtool", and when duplicating functionality you
ought to have a real good reason for it :-)
--
David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-19 1:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-18 21:33 Naming devices Anton Blanchard
2003-05-18 22:36 ` Russell King
2003-05-19 3:40 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-05-19 1:22 ` Daniel Stekloff
2003-05-19 1:48 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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