From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: Why was the /proc info removed from e1000 ? Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 08:51:06 -0800 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3E3957FA.6050500@candelatech.com> References: <3E388D19.4000004@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Jason Lunz In-Reply-To: Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jason Lunz wrote: > greearb@candelatech.com said: > >>I just noticed in the latest changelog that the /proc support was >>removed from the e1000 driver? I always found this usefull...any >>reason why it was deleted? > > > shortly lower in the changelog, you'll see that the same stats are now > availble using the standard ethtool interface. I don't know whether you > need a new ethtool to make sense of the e1000 stats struct. > > Jason It was nice to not have to have to dredge up the latest ethtool binary in order to see the pretty stats. However, I am glad to see more stuff supported by the ethtool interface. Ben -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear