From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93853C433E1 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:55:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F2720704 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:55:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726293AbgGQQzn (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:55:43 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:38422 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726221AbgGQQzn (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:55:43 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net (shards.monkeyblade.net [IPv6:2620:137:e000::1:9]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1F1FFC0619D2; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:601:9f00:477::3d5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: davem-davemloft) by shards.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B44811353EA68; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:55:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:55:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20200717.095535.195550343235350259.davem@davemloft.net> To: haiyangz@microsoft.com Cc: stephen@networkplumber.org, Song.Chi@microsoft.com, kys@microsoft.com, sthemmin@microsoft.com, wei.liu@kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org, ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, kafai@fb.com, songliubraving@fb.com, yhs@fb.com, andriin@fb.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com, kpsingh@chromium.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: hyperv: Add attributes to show RX/TX indirection table From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20200717082451.00c59b42@hermes.lan> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.8 on Emacs 26.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-hyperv-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org From: Haiyang Zhang 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.