On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 01:11 +0000, Keller, Jacob E wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 00:12 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > NAK, ethtool is not the only consumer of the ethtool API.  How many
> > times do I have to repeat myself?
> > 
> > Ben.
> > 
> 
> Ok, so essentially forcing drivers to require static sets for the
> various stats/strings/etc?

No, you can define a new and better statistics API.  There are many
limitations of the current API that could be addressed at the same
time, e.g. lack of units, lack of hierarchy in naming, lack of
distinction between counters and other statistics.

Ben.

> :(
> 
> Will have patches to cleanup fm10k for this then.
> 
> Regards,
> Jake
-- 
Ben Hutchings
Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest.

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