From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757126Ab0ECVpA (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2010 17:45:00 -0400 Received: from exchange.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]:17821 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753123Ab0ECVo6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2010 17:44:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: show stopped status in sysfs From: Ben Hutchings To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , "Eric W. Biederman" , Johannes Berg , Tom Herbert , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20100503212423.GA15998@redhat.com> References: <20100503212423.GA15998@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Solarflare Communications Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 22:44:53 +0100 Message-ID: <1272923093.27948.63.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 May 2010 21:45:19.0646 (UTC) FILETIME=[ECF913E0:01CAEB09] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-8.0.0.1181-6.000.1038-17360.005 X-TM-AS-Result: No--17.629100-0.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: Yes X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 00:24 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > When debugging faulty hardware (in case of virt, faulty > emulation) I found it helpful to be able to examine > stopped status of the interface. The following patch makes > this visible in sysfs. [...] This is a per-queue attribute and should not be associated directly with the netdev. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.