Which ethtool methods should I implement?

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Which ethtool methods should I implement?

From: Timur Tabi <hidden>
Date: 2016-12-20 01:29:40

I'm adding support for ethtool to my driver 
(drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/emac/), and I can't find any meaningful 
HOWTO documentation, so I'm not sure which methods I need to implement.

Is there some minimal set of must-have ethtool methods that should be 
implemented?  Since I support phylib, I guess I should use 
phy_ethtool_get_link_ksettings and phy_ethtool_set_link_ksettings.  What 
else?

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Re: Which ethtool methods should I implement?

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: 2016-12-20 01:40:49

On 12/19/2016 05:29 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
I'm adding support for ethtool to my driver
(drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/emac/), and I can't find any meaningful
HOWTO documentation, so I'm not sure which methods I need to implement.

Is there some minimal set of must-have ethtool methods that should be
implemented?  Since I support phylib, I guess I should use
phy_ethtool_get_link_ksettings and phy_ethtool_set_link_ksettings.  What
else?
Ideally, everything that is supported by your HW, but I would with the
basic essential stuff that you would need in case someone reports
problems with your driver like:

- statistics (MAC for sure) and PHY (if possible), -S
- ability to restart auto-negotation (-r)
- reporting of driver information (-i)
- support toggling and reporting NETIF_F_* features -k/-K
-- 
Florian

Re: Which ethtool methods should I implement?

From: Timur Tabi <hidden>
Date: 2016-12-20 16:38:49

On 12/19/2016 07:40 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
Ideally, everything that is supported by your HW, but I would with the
basic essential stuff that you would need in case someone reports
problems with your driver like:

- statistics (MAC for sure) and PHY (if possible), -S
- ability to restart auto-negotation (-r)
- reporting of driver information (-i)
- support toggling and reporting NETIF_F_* features -k/-K
Thanks, I'll get this done soon.

I'm confused about netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops().  Is this a function 
that drivers are supposed to call?  I only see one driver use it.  Other 
drivers just set netdev->ethtool_ops manually.

-- 
Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm
Technologies, Inc.  Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the
Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
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