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From: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Which ethtool methods should I implement?
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 10:38:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58595E97.40502@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a7fbf45a-3b74-cbb8-f239-44c35717aabd@gmail.com>

On 12/19/2016 07:40 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Ideally, everything that is supported by your HW, but I would with the
> basic essential stuff that you would need in case someone reports
> problems with your driver like:
>
> - statistics (MAC for sure) and PHY (if possible), -S
> - ability to restart auto-negotation (-r)
> - reporting of driver information (-i)
> - support toggling and reporting NETIF_F_* features -k/-K

Thanks, I'll get this done soon.

I'm confused about netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops().  Is this a function 
that drivers are supposed to call?  I only see one driver use it.  Other 
drivers just set netdev->ethtool_ops manually.

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      reply	other threads:[~2016-12-20 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-20  1:29 Which ethtool methods should I implement? Timur Tabi
2016-12-20  1:40 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-12-20 16:38   ` Timur Tabi [this message]

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