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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com, ursula.braun@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] [PATCH] qeth: HiperSockets Network Traffic Analyzer
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:59:44 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100112.045944.197636957.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263299131.6037.44.camel@braunu-laptop>

From: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:25:31 +0100

> Sounds like a good idea, but there exists a qeth-specific problem if
> sniffer configuration should be switched to ethtool: Ethtool requires
> the existence of the network interface for the network device. The
> network interface for s390 network devices is defined within an
> s390-specific initialization step called "online setting". The sniffing
> characteristic must be configured before the online setting of the
> device, since NTA-specific initialization steps are necessary. At that
> point of time we cannot make use of ethtool, because the network
> interface name is not known yet. That means switching to your proposed
> ethtool-based configuration mechanism for HS NTA would result in an
> additional major rework of qeth device setup.

If you have a place to stick sysfs nodes, you've obviously
instantiated the device already.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-12 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-12 11:19 [patch 1/3] [PATCH] qeth: HiperSockets Network Traffic Analyzer Ursula Braun
2010-01-12 11:23 ` David Miller
2010-01-12 12:25   ` Ursula Braun
2010-01-12 12:59     ` David Miller [this message]
2010-01-12 13:29       ` Ursula Braun
2010-01-14  4:35         ` David Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-01-11 12:50 [patch 0/3] s390: qeth patches for 2.6.34 frank.blaschka
2010-01-11 12:50 ` [patch 1/3] [PATCH] qeth: HiperSockets Network Traffic Analyzer frank.blaschka
2010-01-12  0:30   ` David Miller

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