From: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nel...@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 13:59:35 -0700
> On 6/21/2017 12:05 PM, David Miller wrote: >> Also, this is not at all an appropriate place to expose this. The >> "driver info" ethtool command is not a place to post per-connection >> or per-link information. > > I knew it was a bit of a stretch, but almost made sense. However, I'd > still like to put the vio version here - is that acceptable? That part is fine. >> Probably one of the IFLA_* netlink attributes would work best for >> this. You could even use PHYS_PORT_ID for this, which gives you >> 32 bytes to work with. > > Hmmm - good thought. I'll go poke at this and see what I can come up > with. I gather from this that you agree that /sys is not the right > place for this information, either. Netlink is definitely preferred.
