From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.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 13:14:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101115131453.16958d68@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289855642.2586.38.camel@bwh-desktop>
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:14:02 +0000
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> wrote:
> 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?
The existing ioctl base API should be kept as legacy and something
better developed.
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
2010-11-15 21:14 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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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