From: Igor Russkikh <igor.russk...@aquantia.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:02:54 +0000
> >> >>> Devlink has just gained something similar to ethtool -i. Maybe we >>> should get the devlink core to also report the kernel version? >> >> I don't think we have the driver version at all there, my usual >> inclination being to not duplicate information across APIs. Do we >> have non-hypothetical instances of users reporting ethtool -i without >> uname output? Admittedly I may work with above-average Linux-trained >> engineers :S Would it be okay to just get devlink user space to use >> uname() to get the info? > > I work alot with field support engineering people, they have a 'NIC-centric' > view on a system and often assume NIC driver version is all that matters. > > Therefore `ethtool -i` is often the only thing we get when debugging user > issues. This is an education issue, not one of what we should be doing in the kernel.
