From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] team: add ethtool support
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:29:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121229172945.25a09fc8@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1356830366-991-1-git-send-email-fbl@redhat.com>
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:19:26 -0200
Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com> wrote:
> This patch adds few ethtool operations to team driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
What is the motivation for this? Is there an application that depends
on ethtool (versus netlink, or /proc)?
Sorry, I see no point in providing ethtool statistics for generic data that is already
reported by existing netlink and other infrastructure. The purpose of ethtool
statistics is to report device specific that is not available through the normal
generic statistics.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-30 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-30 1:19 [PATCH net-next] team: add ethtool support Flavio Leitner
2012-12-30 1:29 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-12-30 1:35 ` David Miller
2012-12-30 1:44 ` Flavio Leitner
2012-12-30 2:09 ` David Miller
2012-12-30 2:30 ` Flavio Leitner
2012-12-30 2:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-10 16:27 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-01-10 17:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
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