From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Gospodarek Subject: Re: [PATCH] team: add support to get speed via ethtool Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 07:30:24 -0500 Message-ID: <20150307123024.GF502@gospo.home.greyhouse.net> References: <1425592115-1750-1-git-send-email-sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> <20150306.002410.1359006818497057668.davem@davemloft.net> <20150307031013.GC502@gospo.home.greyhouse.net> <20150307.011249.990503044534249616.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: sridhar.samudrala@intel.com, jiri@resnulli.us, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail-qc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:46408 "EHLO mail-qc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750785AbbCGMa3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Mar 2015 07:30:29 -0500 Received: by qcxr5 with SMTP id r5so56754172qcx.13 for ; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 04:30:28 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150307.011249.990503044534249616.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 01:12:49AM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Andy Gospodarek > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 22:10:13 -0500 > > > but this was not possible for SNMP-based tools that are not aware of > > the aggregation of ports on the host. > > The suggested value to report HAS NO MEANING. > > If you just add the speeds up that's complete bullshit. > > Nothing prevents the SNMP userland from doing the right thing > and figuring out the geography and perhaps even exporting > that geography to SNMP querying agents. I was actually pretty surprised that this patch stuck when I first posted it for that very reason. I'm quite sure I posted this as a RHEL customer put in a request for the feature, but since I'm clearly less invested today in that subset of Linux users than I was when I posted that patch it doesn't bother me one bit if it is pulled!