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 07:47:27 -0500 Message-ID: <20150307124727.GG502@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> <20150307.011443.2241226578473467570.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-qg0-f43.google.com ([209.85.192.43]:34201 "EHLO mail-qg0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751079AbbCGMrc (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Mar 2015 07:47:32 -0500 Received: by qgdz60 with SMTP id z60so18802694qgd.1 for ; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 04:47:31 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150307.011443.2241226578473467570.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 01:14:43AM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Andy Gospodarek > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 22:10:13 -0500 > > > You have made it clear that despite the value others see in it, you are > > opposed to setting the speed and duplex on things like tuntap and I > > agree with you on this. Doing that does nothing but continue to enable > > offload hardware to live in userspace and that is not the proper > > direction the kernel should take. > > This is a scarecrow. > > HW offloading has nothing at all to do with reporting complete > bullshit link speed and duplex values on team/bonding devices. I guess I read too much into the comments in this thread and merged them with the ones on the changing/setting of tuntap speeds. I'll circle back with Stephen and Zhu to see if the want to resubmit something that satisfies everyone's needs.