All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Cc: Netdev <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: RFC new ethtool command
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:54:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42255515.70804@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a958240e12af10ef6777f908abfe682@freescale.com>

Stephen guessed right.  We don't need to add yet another "black hole" 
(a.k.a. untyped / dynamic) userland interface.

One of two directions is suggested:

* Create a generalized interface, and add new ethtool commands.

* Create a driver-specific ioctl, and submit a patch to userland ethtool 
which supports this.  Driver-specific / device-specific code in userland 
ethtool is acceptable.

	Jeff

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-02  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-01 15:22 RFC new ethtool command Andy Fleming
2005-03-01 18:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-03-01 23:15   ` Andy Fleming
2005-03-02  5:54 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=42255515.70804@pobox.com \
    --to=jgarzik@pobox.com \
    --cc=afleming@freescale.com \
    --cc=netdev@oss.sgi.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.