From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Snook Subject: Re: a maze of twisty stats, most different Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:47:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4683ADFC.4020000@redhat.com> References: <46829C48.6080005@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux Network Development list To: Rick Jones Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:35991 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763517AbXF1Mr7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:47:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46829C48.6080005@hp.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Rick Jones wrote: > It seems that every driver, when providing support for ethtool -S > functionality, has considerable lattitude when it comes to the stats > provided. Clearly this is very nice for the driver writer(s) as it > allows them to provide whatever stats they feel are most "natural" for > their NIC(s) and name them as they see fit. This is deliberate. Ethtool operates at a very primitive level, and generally does little or no translation between the hardware registers and userspace. > However :) > > From the standpoint of someone looking from the outside, say someone > wanting to consume ethtool -S statistics, it seems to be a big jumble. > > Might there be a way to bring those two camps together? Is there > already, with the same wide availabilty of ethtool, and I've just not > seen it? ifconfig comes to mind, for one. What statistics are you looking for exactly? -- Chris