On 10/31/2014 09:34 AM, Ronciak, John wrote:
> David,
> 
>> How best would we go about getting this functionality into the standard
>> driver? I suspect my initial experiments would need some work to watch out
>> for corner cases and interactions with other adapter features.
> I would suggest working on submitting changes to ethtool to enable the 
> feature.  Along with the ethtool patch to add the functionality you could 
> also publish the ixgbe changes required to use to the feature.  Doing both of 
> them at the same time.  You would have to go through the net-dev mail list to 
> get this approved.

Hopefully ethtool tool and API doesn't need any changes.

Should just need to implement the ethtool hooks in the driver itself.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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