Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 12:41:26AM CET, [email protected] wrote: >ethtool -i has served us well for a long time, but its showing >its limitations more and more. The device information should >also be reported per device not per-netdev. > >Lay foundation for a simple devlink-based way of reading device >info. Add driver name and device serial number as initial pieces >of information exposed via this new API. > >v3: > - rename helpers (Jiri); > - rename driver name attr (Jiri); > - remove double spacing in commit message (Jiri). >RFC v2: > - wrap the skb into an opaque structure (Jiri); > - allow the serial number of be any length (Jiri & Andrew); > - add driver name (Jonathan). > >Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
