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
next prev parent 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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