From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Thomas Martitz <thomas.martitz@hhi.fraunhofer.de>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Preferred method for configuration
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 11:44:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1375955079.2853.1.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <520332F4.5020206@hhi.fraunhofer.de>
On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 07:56 +0200, Thomas Martitz wrote:
> Resent with list in CC.
>
> Am 08.08.2013 07:41, schrieb Joe Perches:
> > On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 07:32 +0200, Thomas Martitz wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm developing a NIC driver and currently export some custom
> >> configuration settings and actions (e.g. enabling a loopback mode) via
> >> sysfs.
> >
> > Is there some reason you don't want to use ethtool?
> >
> >
>
> It doesn't allow for custom settings does it? For standards stuff I'm
> sure going to use ethtool.
You can always propose extensions to ethtool.
Note that the ethtool 'features' API already allows setting loopback and
there is a 'private flags' API through which you can expose up to 32
arbitrary named flags if they're really not at all generic.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-08 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-08 5:32 Preferred method for configuration Thomas Martitz
2013-08-08 5:41 ` Joe Perches
2013-08-08 5:56 ` Thomas Martitz
2013-08-08 9:44 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2013-08-08 16:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-08-13 12:13 ` Thomas Martitz
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