From: Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:35:01 -0800

> It seems the only way to get the current pci-e bus speed & width
> in ixgbe (and probably many other NICs) is by parsing output
> of lspci -vvv.
> 
> I'd personally find it easier if this info were available via
> ethtool API.

You could just as easily have ethtool determine the PCI device
location (using existing facilities) and fetch the PCI-e info from the
PCI sysfs files.

There is no reason to extend ethtool for this.

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