On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 08:41:44 +0800 Jason Xing wrote: > > > Sorry to revive this thread. I wonder why not use this patch like mlnx > > > driver > > > does instead of adding statistics into the yaml file? Are we gradually > > > using or > > > adding more fields into the yaml file to replace the 'ethtool -S' command? > > > > > > > It's trivial to have the stats in ethtool as well. But I noticed > > the stats series intentionally removed some stats from ethtool. So > > I didn't put it both places. > > Thank you for the reply. I thought there was some particular reason > :-)
Yes, we don't want duplication. We have a long standing (and documented) policy against duplicating normal stats in custom stat APIs, otherwise vendors pile everything into the custom stats.
