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Thanks for your reply.

Sure KNI can offer ethtool interface.  But suppose I am already running a
DPDK application on a physical port, but at the same time I want to control
the port with ethtool like interface.  How could I do that?

-hs



On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Jayakumar, Muthurajan <
muthurajan.jayakumar@intel.com> wrote:

> Please refer KNI - the support for ethtool e.g.,
> lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/igb/igb_main.c
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of HS
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 9:32 AM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] Ethtool support in DPDK pmd
>
> Hi,
>
> Just thought it would be useful to add ethtool support for poll mode
> driver, so we could control/check various hardware features on demand.   Do
> you guys have any plan for this?
>
> Thanks,
> -hs
>