From: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:45:06 +0100
> I know it is not nice, but maybe we need to consider this is part of > the kernel ABI? You could be breaking applications by making this > change. > > What do others think? Not really. The whole reason we have a string array exposed to userspace is so that tools absolutely cannot hard code the driver specific ethtool stats in any way shape or form, and must always query the number, order, and names every single time.
