RE: [PATCH net-next v3] dsa: lan9303: Add 3 ethtool stats

From: Jerry.Ray
Date: Wed Nov 30 2022 - 13:13:21 EST


>>> Why not add them there as well?
>>>
>>> Are these drops accounted for in any drop / error statistics within
>>> rtnl_link_stats?
>>>
>>> It's okay to provide implementation specific breakdown via ethtool -S
>>> but user must be able to notice that there are some drops / errors in
>>> the system by looking at standard stats.
>>
>> The idea here is to provide the statistics as documented in the part
>> datasheet. In the future, I'll be looking to add support for the stats64
>> API and will deal with appropriately sorting the available hardware stats
>> into the rtnl_link_stats buckets.
>
>Upstream we care about providing reasonably uniform experience across
>drivers and vendors. Because I don't know you and therefore don't trust
>you to follow up you must do the standard thing in the same patch set,
>pretty please.
>

Won't be able to get to stats64 this cycle. Looking to migrate to phylink
first. This is a pretty old driver.

Understand you don't know me - yet.

Regards,
Jerry.