Re: ethtool TODO list - additional info

2016-07-12 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:34:06AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: "John W. Linville" > Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:12:52 -0400 > > > I haven't heard a strong case for why it is necessary. > > Stats on large scale setups/systems is problematic and ethtool > is a part of

Re: ethtool TODO list - additional info

2016-07-12 Thread David Miller
From: "John W. Linville" Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:12:52 -0400 > I haven't heard a strong case for why it is necessary. Stats on large scale setups/systems is problematic and ethtool is a part of that problem. Extensibility in general suffers because of the ioctl()

Re: ethtool TODO list - additional info

2016-07-12 Thread John Fastabend
On 16-07-12 11:12 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 01:04:52PM -0500, Jorge Alberto Garcia wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >>> Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 05:37:42PM CEST, jorge.garcia.gonza...@gmail.com wrote: Hi ! Some

Re: ethtool TODO list - additional info

2016-07-12 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 01:04:52PM -0500, Jorge Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote: > > Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 05:37:42PM CEST, jorge.garcia.gonza...@gmail.com wrote: > >>Hi ! > >> > >>Some days ago, Jiri Pirko was talking about some next

Re: ethtool TODO list - additional info

2016-07-12 Thread Jorge Alberto Garcia
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 05:37:42PM CEST, jorge.garcia.gonza...@gmail.com wrote: >>Hi ! >> >>Some days ago, Jiri Pirko was talking about some next steps to >>implement for ethtool. >> >> I haven't seen any follow up since

Re: ethtool TODO list - additional info

2016-07-12 Thread Jiri Pirko
Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 05:37:42PM CEST, jorge.garcia.gonza...@gmail.com wrote: >Hi ! > >Some days ago, Jiri Pirko was talking about some next steps to >implement for ethtool. > > I haven't seen any follow up since ethtool's maintainer change. Can we have >additional details about these ? > >-

ethtool TODO list - additional info

2016-07-05 Thread Jorge Alberto Garcia
Hi ! Some days ago, Jiri Pirko was talking about some next steps to implement for ethtool. I haven't seen any follow up since ethtool's maintainer change. Can we have additional details about these ? - libethtool - API - generic netlink - sub commands syntax - TODO/bugzilla On Mon, Jul 4,