> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 12:56 PM
> To: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>
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> Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>; Stephen Hemminger
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: hyperv: Add attributes to show RX/TX
> indirection table
>
> From: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:18:11 +0000
>
> > Also in some minimal installation, "ethtool" may not always be
> > installed.
>
> This is never an argument against using the most well suited API for
> exporting information to the user.
>
> You can write "minimal" tools that just perform the ethtool netlink
> operations you require for information retrieval, you don't have to
> have the ethtool utility installed.
This option is being considered by us as well.
Thanks,
- Haiyang
