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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Liang-Min Larry Wang <liang-min.wang@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, aharton@cisco.com, bruce.richardson@intle.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ethtool: add new library to provide ethtool-alike APIs
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 08:22:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150529082219.57614c70@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1432905309-912-3-git-send-email-liang-min.wang@intel.com>

On Fri, 29 May 2015 09:15:09 -0400
Liang-Min Larry Wang <liang-min.wang@intel.com> wrote:

> +	drvinfo->n_stats = sizeof(struct rte_eth_stats) / sizeof(uint64_t);
> +	drvinfo->testinfo_len = 0;


Providing a hook to access more functionality is good and compatiablity
with old API's is helpful.  Too bad ethtool is kind of a clunky old
inflexible, and easily broken with changes. But that is not your fault.

Duplicating eth_stats in ethtool is not helpful.
This is actively discouraged for Linux device drivers.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-29 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-29 13:15 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] User-space Ethtool Liang-Min Larry Wang
2015-05-29 13:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] ethdev: add api to set default mac address Liang-Min Larry Wang
2015-05-29 15:20   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-05-29 18:21     ` Wang, Liang-min
2015-05-29 13:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ethtool: add new library to provide ethtool-alike APIs Liang-Min Larry Wang
2015-05-29 15:22   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-05-29 18:17     ` Wang, Liang-min
2015-05-29 19:26 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] User-space Ethtool Liang-Min Larry Wang
2015-05-29 19:26 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ethtool: add new library to provide ethtool-alike APIs Liang-Min Larry Wang
2015-06-02 12:38   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-02 13:15     ` Wang, Liang-min
2015-06-02 14:32       ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-02 15:47         ` Wang, Liang-min
2015-06-02 16:02           ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-02 17:06             ` Wang, Liang-min
2015-06-02 20:37               ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-02 20:56                 ` Wang, Liang-min
2015-06-03  1:00                   ` David Harton (dharton)
2015-06-03  2:09                 ` Andrew Harvey (agh)
2015-06-04 14:25                   ` O'Driscoll, Tim
2015-06-04 14:58                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-06-04 22:10                     ` Andrew Harvey (agh)
2015-06-05 10:46                       ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-05 11:25                         ` Wang, Liang-min
2015-06-05 12:47                           ` Bruce Richardson
2015-06-05 17:24                             ` Andrew Harvey (agh)
2015-06-05 21:03                               ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-05 13:40                           ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-05 14:20                             ` Wang, Liang-min
2015-06-05 16:07                         ` Andrew Harvey (agh)
2015-06-05 20:57                           ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-05-30  0:37 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] User-space Ethtool Liang-Min Larry Wang
2015-05-30  0:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ethtool: add new library to provide ethtool-alike APIs Liang-Min Larry Wang
2015-05-30 15:48   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-05-30 16:16     ` Wang, Liang-min
2015-05-30 19:26       ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-05-30 19:40         ` Wang, Liang-min
2015-05-31 16:48           ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-05-31 17:30             ` Wang, Liang-min
2015-05-31 18:31             ` Wang, Liang-min
2015-06-01 12:42   ` David Harton (dharton)

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