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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Chris Healy <cphealy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool v4 0/6] ethtool(1) cable test support
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 18:24:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200705162421.GA884423@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200705004447.ook7vkzffa5ejb2v@lion.mk-sys.cz>

On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 02:44:47AM +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 03:07:37AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Add the user space side of the ethtool cable test.
> > 
> > The TDR output is most useful when fed to some other tool which can
> > visualize the data. So add JSON support, by borrowing code from
> > iproute2.
> > 
> > v2:
> > man page fixes.
> > 
> > v3:
> > More man page fixes.
> > Use json_print from iproute2.
> > 
> > v4:
> > checkpatch cleanup
> > ethtool --cable-test dev
> > Place breakout into cable_test_context
> > Remove Pair: Pair output
> 
> Hello Andrew,
> 
> could you please test this update of netlink/desc-ethtool.c on top of
> your series? The userspace messages look as expected but I'm not sure if
> I have a device with cable test support available to test pretty
> printing of kernel messages. (And even if I do, I almost certainly won't
> have physical access to it.)

Hi Michal

Currently there are three PHY drivers with support: Marvell, Atheros
at803x, and bcm54140. And you can do some amount of testing without
physical access, you can expect the test results to indicate the cable
is O.K.

However, i will give these a go.

Some sort of capture and reply would be interesting for this, and for
regression testing. The ability to do something like

ethtool --monitor -w test.cap

To dump the netlink socket data to a file,  and

ethtool --monitor -r test.cap

to read from the file and decode its contents. Maybe this is already
possible via nlmon?

	 Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-05 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-01  1:07 [PATCH ethtool v4 0/6] ethtool(1) cable test support Andrew Lunn
2020-07-01  1:07 ` [PATCH ethtool v4 1/6] Add " Andrew Lunn
2020-07-04 23:43   ` Michal Kubecek
2020-07-01  1:07 ` [PATCH ethtool v4 2/6] Add cable test TDR support Andrew Lunn
2020-07-04 23:58   ` Michal Kubecek
2020-07-01  1:07 ` [PATCH ethtool v4 3/6] json_writer/json_print: Import the iproute2 helper code for JSON output Andrew Lunn
2020-07-01  1:07 ` [PATCH ethtool v4 4/6] Add --json command line argument parsing Andrew Lunn
2020-07-01  1:07 ` [PATCH ethtool v4 5/6] ethtool.8.in: Document the cable test commands Andrew Lunn
2020-07-01  1:07 ` [PATCH ethtool v4 6/6] ethtool.8.in: Add --json option Andrew Lunn
2020-07-05  0:44 ` [PATCH ethtool v4 0/6] ethtool(1) cable test support Michal Kubecek
2020-07-05 16:24   ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2020-07-05 23:26     ` Michal Kubecek
2020-07-05 18:25   ` Andrew Lunn
2020-07-05 23:27     ` Michal Kubecek

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