On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:12:58 -0400 David Hollis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 12:32 -0700, Auke Kok wrote: > > dumping registers in readable format is an extension that needs to be > > implemented per driver. Not all nics have done this - we just did it > > ourselves > > for ixgb, and I saw skge/sky2 just fly by this week. > > This has always bothered me a bit with ethtool. It really stinks that > we have to actually write code and generate patches and get everyone to > update a utility just to be able to get this type of access. I see two > ways to make the situation better: 1) add extensions to the drivers > themselves to be able to report this which would likely lead to a lot of > driver bloat and too much user-space style info (like verbose > descriptions of the register and it's purpose) or 2) develop some style > of register description definition type of text file, maybe XML, maybe > INI style or something stored in /etc/ethtool as <drivername>.conf or > something like that. This way, ethtool doesn't have to be > changed/updated/patched/likely-bug-added for every single device known > to man. > > Just a thought. We could switch to shared libraries like 'tc' uses. -- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
