From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle•de>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, xen-devel@lists•xensource.com,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix•com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: report link speed to ethtool
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:17:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111118191722.GA16429@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321643431.2883.39.camel@bwh-desktop>
On Fri, Nov 18, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 19:43 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 18, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 17:48 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > > The reported data refers to VMWare vmxnet.
> > > NAK, we should not just make things up.
> >
> > So how about removing veth_get_settings, vmxnet3_get_settings,
> > tun_get_settings and other functions that escaped my grep?
>
> If they can't provide meaningful information then maybe they should be
> removed. However, that could result in a regression for existing
> working configurations. (This isn't the same as the case you're trying
> to fix, since those applications have never worked with xen-netfront or
> many other drivers that don't implement get_settings.)
That may be.
How about a new generic ethtool_op_get_settings_veth which returns fake
values for all relevant drivers (virtio, xen-netfront, and the ones
listed above)?
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-18 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-18 16:48 [PATCH] xen-netfront: report link speed to ethtool Olaf Hering
2011-11-18 17:46 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-11-18 18:43 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-18 19:10 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-11-18 19:17 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2011-11-18 18:44 ` Rick Jones
2011-11-18 18:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-11-18 18:58 ` use a special value of -2 for virtual devices to report indeterminate speed? Rick Jones
2011-11-18 19:13 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-11-18 19:11 ` [PATCH] xen-netfront: report link speed to ethtool David Miller
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