may I also suggest being able to specify the offload parameters in the format in which "ethtool -k <nic>" prints them? The user can only guess which -K parameters correspond to the -k parameters.
On 09/08/2015 04:52 AM, roopa wrote: > On 9/5/15, 2:53 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 03:28 +0200, Robert Urban wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> there doesn't seem to be any flag to request ethtool to present its output >>> in a >>> script-friendly form. Things like: >>>> Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full >>>> 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full >>>> 1000baseT/Full >>> are kind of pain to parse. >>> >>> Something to consider? >> Or write a library for using SIOCETHTOOL. The interface is fairly well >> documented now and there are other users besides the ethtool utility. > > one of the requests which we usually get is ethtool output in json format. > since iproute2 tools are already getting > an option to print in json format, would be nice if we considered an option to > print in json for ethtool too. > >
