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From: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: <netdev@vger•kernel.org>, <linux-omap@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 1/1] drivers: net: cpsw: add support to show hw stats via ethtool get_regs
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 13:30:07 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51EA4387.9070301@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130719.173202.1362261343675979678.davem@davemloft.net>

On 7/20/2013 6:02 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti•com>
> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:37:21 +0530
>
>> Add support to show CPSW hardware statistics to user via ethtool get_regs
>> ops so user can find if there were any error reported or the system is
>> over loaded duing hagh data rate transfer.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti•com>
> This is not the correct way to provide this functionality.  ->get_regs()
> is for dumping the raw hardware registers to userspace for low level
> debugging purposes, not for providing HW specific statistics.
>
> The correct thing to do is provide an appropriate implementation of
> the ->get_strings() and ->get_ethtool_stats() methods.
Will change the implementation and resubmit the patch.

Regards
Mugunthan V N

      reply	other threads:[~2013-07-20  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-19 14:07 [net-next PATCH 1/1] drivers: net: cpsw: add support to show hw stats via ethtool get_regs Mugunthan V N
2013-07-20  0:32 ` David Miller
2013-07-20  8:00   ` Mugunthan V N [this message]

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