From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] add net_device_stats support to ethtool
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:14:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <479108B4.6030709@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801161529.m0GFTfYR005096@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu>
Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have posted this patch in the past with absolutely no reply.
> I would appreciate some sort of feedback of the form
> interested/not interested. Should I just drop it?
>
> "ethtool -S" only supports devices that have custom code written to
> print the stats.
No -- more specifically, ethtool is for NIC-specific statistics that do
not appear elsewhere.
net_device_stats already appear elsewhere, so it's redundant to add it
to ethtool. Just duplicates the same functionality elsewhere.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-18 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-16 15:29 [patch] add net_device_stats support to ethtool Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-16 18:03 ` Ben Greear
2008-01-16 18:34 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-16 18:46 ` Ben Greear
2008-01-17 5:13 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-18 20:14 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-01-18 22:01 ` Dan Nicolaescu
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2006-12-04 17:06 Dan Nicolaescu
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