From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Danielle Ratson <danieller@nvidia.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"mkubecek@suse.cz" <mkubecek@suse.cz>,
"matt@traverse.com.au" <matt@traverse.com.au>,
"daniel.zahka@gmail.com" <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>,
Amit Cohen <amcohen@nvidia.com>,
NBU-mlxsw <NBU-mlxsw@exchange.nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool-next 08/14] cmis: Enable JSON output support in CMIS modules
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:17:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250129171728.1ad90a87@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM6PR12MB4516FF124D760E1D3A826161D8EE2@DM6PR12MB4516.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>
On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:06:09 +0000 Danielle Ratson wrote:
> > Is the consumer of the JSON output supposed to be parsing the units and
> > making sure to scale the values every time it reads (e.g. divide by 1000 if it
> > wants W but unit is mW)?
> >
> > Or the unit is fully implied by the key, and can't change? IOW the unit is only
> > listed so that the human writing the consumer can figure out the unit and then
> > hardcode it?
>
> Yes, the unit is implied by the key is hardcoded. Same as for the
> regular output, it should give the costumer idea about the scale.
> There are also temperature fields that could be either F or C
> degrees. So overall , the units fields should align all the fields
> that implies some sort of scale.
Some sort of a schema would be a better place to document the unit
of the fields, IMO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-30 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-26 11:56 [PATCH ethtool-next 00/14] Add JSON output to --module-info Danielle Ratson
2025-01-26 11:56 ` [PATCH ethtool-next 01/14] module_common: Add a new file to all the common code for all module types Danielle Ratson
2025-01-26 11:56 ` [PATCH ethtool-next 02/14] sff_common: Move sff_show_revision_compliance() to qsfp.c Danielle Ratson
2025-01-26 11:56 ` [PATCH ethtool-next 03/14] cmis: Change loop order in cmis_show_dom_chan_lvl_flags() Danielle Ratson
2025-01-26 11:56 ` [PATCH ethtool-next 04/14] qsfp: Reorder the channel-level flags list for SFF8636 module type Danielle Ratson
2025-01-26 11:56 ` [PATCH ethtool-next 05/14] qsfp: Refactor sff8636_show_dom() by moving code into separate functions Danielle Ratson
2025-01-27 19:44 ` Vadim Fedorenko
2025-01-28 13:17 ` Danielle Ratson
2025-01-26 11:56 ` [PATCH ethtool-next 06/14] module_common: Add helpers to support JSON printing for common value types Danielle Ratson
2025-01-26 11:56 ` [PATCH ethtool-next 07/14] cmis: Add JSON output handling to --module-info in CMIS modules Danielle Ratson
2025-01-26 11:56 ` [PATCH ethtool-next 08/14] cmis: Enable JSON output support " Danielle Ratson
2025-01-27 20:12 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-28 13:18 ` Danielle Ratson
2025-01-28 22:09 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-29 7:06 ` Danielle Ratson
2025-01-30 1:17 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-01-30 12:38 ` Danielle Ratson
2025-01-30 16:24 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-30 17:20 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-02-02 18:22 ` Danielle Ratson
2025-02-02 19:40 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-02-03 9:58 ` Danielle Ratson
2025-02-03 20:59 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-29 9:40 ` Danielle Ratson
2025-01-26 11:56 ` [PATCH ethtool-next 09/14] qsfp: Add JSON output handling to --module-info in SFF8636 modules Danielle Ratson
2025-01-27 20:16 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-28 13:23 ` Danielle Ratson
2025-01-28 22:13 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-29 11:37 ` Gal Pressman
2025-01-29 11:53 ` Danielle Ratson
2025-01-29 16:21 ` Petr Machata
2025-01-29 12:50 ` Danielle Ratson
2025-01-29 10:44 ` Petr Machata
2025-01-29 11:53 ` Danielle Ratson
2025-01-26 11:56 ` [PATCH ethtool-next 10/14] qsfp: Enable JSON output support for " Danielle Ratson
2025-01-26 11:56 ` [PATCH ethtool-next 11/14] sfpid: Add JSON output handling to --module-info in SFF8079 modules Danielle Ratson
2025-01-26 11:56 ` [PATCH ethtool-next 12/14] sfpdiag: Add JSON output handling to --module-info in SFF8472 modules Danielle Ratson
2025-01-26 11:56 ` [PATCH ethtool-next 13/14] ethtool: Enable JSON output support for SFF8079 and " Danielle Ratson
2025-01-26 11:56 ` [PATCH ethtool-next 14/14] ethtool: Add '-j' support to ethtool Danielle Ratson
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