On Tue, 5 May 2026 00:59:40 +0000 Jon Kohler wrote: > > On May 4, 2026, at 7:49 PM, Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> e1000e hardware supports a single RX/TX queue pair, add basic support > >> for ethtool -l (i.e. get_channels), so that callers indeed see a single > >> queue. > > > > Why? Isn't EOPNOTSUP from ethtool -l implicitly saying that there's > > only one queue? > > Perhaps, but I’m not sure that is a guarantee. A good relevant example > is when I added get_channels support to enic, which supports all sorts > of channels, so I don’t think EOPNOTSUP can be 100% consider reliable > in that case. Meaning, if it just so happens that the original author(s) > didn't put in get_channels, that doesn’t necessarily mean there is only > one queue. > > And in this case, there is an "other" queue as as well too, as far as > I can tell, so the output is at least semi-interesting.
Sorry I wasn't clear enough - if you have an actual, real life use case why you need queue count of 1 to be explicitly reported - please explain it and put it in the commit message. If you don't - please don't send patches for the sake of it.
