On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:34:06AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: "John W. Linville" <linvi...@tuxdriver.com> > Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:12:52 -0400 > > > I haven't heard a strong case for why it is necessary. > > Stats on large scale setups/systems is problematic and ethtool > is a part of that problem. > > Extensibility in general suffers because of the ioctl() interface as > well. > > For getting ethtool settings or stats, we have no clean filtering > mechanism. > > I could go on and on... > > I think before any new features are added to ethtool, we move over to > the netlink based interface and lock the existing ioctl() API in stone.
OK, then I'll start looking at this. Thanks for providing some clarity! John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linvi...@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.
