On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:50:53 +0300 Ido Schimmel wrote: > From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@nvidia.com> > > This patch set extends devlink to allow device drivers to expose device > metrics to user space in a standard and extensible fashion, as opposed > to the driver-specific debugfs approach.
I feel like all those loose hardware interfaces are a huge maintenance burden. I don't know what the solution is, but the status quo is not great. I spend way too much time patrolling ethtool -S outputs already. I've done my absolute best to make sure that something as simple as updating device firmware can be done in a vendor-agnostic fashion, and I'm not sure I've succeeded. Every single vendor comes up with their own twists. Long story short I'm extremely unexcited about another interface where drivers expose random strings of their picking. Maybe udp_tunnel module can have "global" stats? This would be a good topic for netconf, or LPC hallway discussion :(
