public inbox for netdev@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: greearb@candelatech.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Should we report bus width/speed via ethtool?
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:36:50 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121205.173650.1310171220758794440.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50BFBE05.7020408@candelatech.com>

From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:35:01 -0800

> It seems the only way to get the current pci-e bus speed & width
> in ixgbe (and probably many other NICs) is by parsing output
> of lspci -vvv.
> 
> I'd personally find it easier if this info were available via
> ethtool API.

You could just as easily have ethtool determine the PCI device
location (using existing facilities) and fetch the PCI-e info from the
PCI sysfs files.

There is no reason to extend ethtool for this.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-05 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-05 21:35 Should we report bus width/speed via ethtool? Ben Greear
2012-12-05 22:36 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-12-05 23:09   ` Ben Greear
2012-12-06  0:01     ` David Miller
2012-12-06  0:08       ` Rick Jones
2012-12-06  0:20       ` Brice Goglin
2012-12-06  0:44         ` Ben Greear
2012-12-06  2:06 ` Ben Hutchings

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20121205.173650.1310171220758794440.davem@davemloft.net \
    --to=davem@davemloft.net \
    --cc=e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net \
    --cc=greearb@candelatech.com \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox