From: roopa <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Robert Urban <urban@unix-beratung.de>,
bwh@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: parsing the output of ethtool programmatically
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 19:52:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55EE4D86.5080902@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1441446794.13323.8.camel@decadent.org.uk>
On 9/5/15, 2:53 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 03:28 +0200, Robert Urban wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> there doesn't seem to be any flag to request ethtool to present its output in a
>> script-friendly form. Things like:
>>> Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>>> 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>>> 1000baseT/Full
>> are kind of pain to parse.
>>
>> Something to consider?
> Or write a library for using SIOCETHTOOL. The interface is fairly well
> documented now and there are other users besides the ethtool utility.
one of the requests which we usually get is ethtool output in json
format. since iproute2 tools are already getting
an option to print in json format, would be nice if we considered an
option to print in json for ethtool too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-08 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-25 1:28 parsing the output of ethtool programmatically Robert Urban
2015-09-05 9:53 ` Ben Hutchings
2015-09-08 2:52 ` roopa [this message]
2017-10-26 0:21 ` Robert Urban
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