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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: hyperv: Add attributes to show RX/TX
indirection table

From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:18:11 +0000

quoted

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.

This option is being considered by us as well. 

Thanks,
- Haiyang