On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 05:58:58PM -0700, David Miller wrote: >From: Gavin Shan <gws...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> >Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:38:12 +1000 > >> (1) ethtool usually dumps statistics collected by hardware, but this >> debugfs file dumps the statistics of packets seen (collected) by >> software. > >ethtool is not strictly for hardware statistics, it's often used for >software maintained values >
Thanks for the confirm. I'll move the functionalities introduced by this patchset to ethtool in next respin, as discussed in another thread. Cheers, Gavin
