From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: the future of ethtool
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:14:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289855642.2586.38.camel@bwh-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101115124428.7b857ccb@nehalam>
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 12:44 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
[...]
> My views are simple:
>
> Ethtool needs to be an extension of existing netlink API for interfaces.
> - handles multiple values per transaction
> - extensible
[...]
Are you suggesting to send and receive the existing ethtool command and
result structures (with some wrapping) through netlink? Or some larger
change to the API?
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-15 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-15 19:41 the future of ethtool Jeff Garzik
2010-11-15 20:18 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-15 20:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-11-15 21:14 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-11-15 21:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-11-15 21:52 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-15 22:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-15 23:33 ` Thomas Graf
2010-11-16 0:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-16 0:10 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-16 6:25 ` Thomas Graf
2010-11-16 2:02 ` David Miller
2010-11-16 6:17 ` Thomas Graf
2010-11-15 21:03 ` Jeff Garzik
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