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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jiri@resnulli.us
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, eladr@mellanox.com, idosch@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: HW communication debugging interface - ideas?
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2015 11:51:16 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151101.115116.620913426492186507.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150930135141.GF2098@nanopsycho.orion>

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:51:41 +0200

> 2) generic Netlink (genl) interface. Easy to put metadata in, including the
> device identificator (pci address). User then can use nlmon in order to
> be able to use wireshark to see the netlink messages.
> 
> Looks like 2) might be viable, well-defined, generic interface to carry
> this info. What do you think? Does this make sense?

Sorry for the late response.  I definitely prefer this netlink idea,
particularly for the metadata aspect.

Yes, the ethernet frames should "identify" the device, but I much more
like the idea of precisely having the geographic ID of the device (PCI
ID, whatever) available as metadata as well.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-01 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-30 13:51 HW communication debugging interface - ideas? Jiri Pirko
2015-10-05  8:54 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-10-05  9:38   ` David Miller
2015-10-05  9:45     ` Jiri Pirko
2015-10-05  9:54 ` Rosen, Rami
2015-10-05  9:56   ` Jiri Pirko
2015-10-05 14:49     ` Andrew Lunn
2015-10-05 14:55       ` Jiri Pirko
2015-10-05 14:58         ` Andrew Lunn
2015-10-05 15:18           ` Jiri Pirko
2015-10-05 15:29             ` John Fastabend
2015-10-05 15:35               ` Jiri Pirko
2015-10-05 15:47                 ` John Fastabend
2015-10-06  8:14                   ` Jiri Pirko
2015-10-06 14:54                     ` John Fastabend
2015-10-06 15:02                       ` Jiri Pirko
2015-10-06 15:02                       ` Andrew Lunn
2015-11-01 17:58                         ` Guy Harris
2015-10-05 12:28 ` Thomas Graf
2015-10-05 18:32 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2015-10-05 20:40   ` Jiri Pirko
2015-11-01 16:51 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-11-02  6:13   ` Jiri Pirko

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