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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
	chavey@google.com, davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	therbert@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] add ethtool loopback support
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:03:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBE3692.7000807@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BBE33C9.5000507@garzik.org>


> Additionally, ethtool is intended as an interface that exports 
> capabilities generally useful to users.  Is this feature really 
> something that users will make use of?  It seems more in the realm of 
> design validation

In enterprise days gone by, performing loopback tests were a part of hardware 
problem diagnosis in the field - either by SEs or customers.

rick jones

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-08 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-08 17:35 [PATCH 1/1] add ethtool loopback support chavey
2010-04-08 18:29 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-04-08 19:17   ` Laurent Chavey
2010-04-08 19:35     ` Ben Hutchings
2010-04-08 22:43       ` Laurent Chavey
2010-04-09  0:46         ` Jeff Garzik
2010-04-09 16:43           ` Laurent Chavey
2010-04-09 16:55             ` Ben Hutchings
2010-04-09 17:01             ` Jeff Garzik
2010-04-09 18:09               ` Laurent Chavey
2010-04-08 19:51   ` Jeff Garzik
2010-04-08 20:03     ` Rick Jones [this message]
2010-04-08 21:18     ` Laurent Chavey

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