From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
"Michał Mirosław" <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>,
"Mahesh Bandewar" <maheshb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool 0/7] Generic netdev features support
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 02:31:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1338600696.2770.27.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120601174517.100bf98f@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 17:45 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 01:33:47 +0100
> Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> wrote:
>
> > This series adds support for the not-so-new generic netdev features
> > ethtool API, along with some test infrastructure and test cases to check
> > that it works with old and new kernel versions. I'm still not convinced
> > that there are enough test cases, but I've held this back for too damn
> > long already.
> >
> > I'd like to include these changes in an ethtool 3.4 release by the end
> > of next week, so let me know if there's anything wrong with them.
> >
> > Ben.
>
> Slightly off-topic, is anyone working on doing ethtool setting over netlink?
I'm not. I seem to remember you brought this up at netconf 2010 but I
don't remember what your motivation was. Were you thinking about being
able to monitor for changes, for example?
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
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They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-02 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-02 0:33 [PATCH ethtool 0/7] Generic netdev features support Ben Hutchings
2012-06-02 0:35 ` [PATCH ethtool 1/7] Run tests in-process Ben Hutchings
2012-06-02 0:36 ` [PATCH ethtool 2/7] Add output file parameter to dump_hex() and make it extern Ben Hutchings
2012-06-02 0:37 ` [PATCH ethtool 3/7] test: Add test_ioctl() function to support a mock send_ioctl() Ben Hutchings
2012-06-02 0:37 ` [PATCH ethtool 4/7] Add unit tests for setting offload features (old API) Ben Hutchings
2012-06-02 0:38 ` [PATCH ethtool 5/7] Regularise offload feature settings Ben Hutchings
2012-06-02 0:39 ` [PATCH ethtool 6/7] Report when offload feature changes are not exactly as requested Ben Hutchings
2012-06-02 0:40 ` [PATCH ethtool 7/7] Change -k/-K options to use ETHTOOL_{G,S}FEATURES Ben Hutchings
2012-06-02 0:45 ` [PATCH ethtool 0/7] Generic netdev features support Stephen Hemminger
2012-06-02 1:31 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
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