On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 05:06:48PM +0200, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> Add a new selftest - ethtool_std_stats.sh - which validates the
> eth-ctrl, eth-mac and pause standard statistics exported by an
> interface. Not all counters can be validated in software, especially
> those that are keeping track of errors. Counters such as
> SingleCollisionFrames, FrameCheckSequenceErrors etc are not tested nor
> included in this new selftest.
Hi Ioana
Thanks for the test!
Do we actually expect errors when running such a test? How many times
have you run this test and seen any of the error counters be anything
other than 0?
Which do you think is more likely:
1) A real error happens
2) Bug in the driver so that it reports a value in the wrong place?
Maybe we should check the error counters are zero?
Andrew
