Subject: Re: the future of ethtool

From: Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:14:02 +0000

On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 12:44 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
[...]
> My views are simple:
> 
> Ethtool needs to be an extension of existing netlink API for interfaces.
>   - handles multiple values per transaction
>   - extensible
[...]

Are you suggesting to send and receive the existing ethtool command and
result structures (with some wrapping) through netlink?  Or some larger
change to the API?

Ben.

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