On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 22:10:39 +0200 Michal Kubecek wrote: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 12:18:08PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > Heh, I misunderstood your question. You're asking if the strings can be > > queried from the command line. > > > > No, I don't think so. We could add some form of "porcelain" command if > > needed. > > We don't have such command but I think it would be useful. After all, as > you pointed out, the request is already implemented at UAPI level so all > we need is to make it available to user. > > The syntax will be a bit tricky as some string sets are global and some > per device. Out of > > ethtool --show-strings [devname] <setname> > ethtool --show-strings [devname] set <setname> > ethtool --show-strings <setname> [dev <devname>] > > the third seems nicest but also least consistent with the rest of > ethtool command line syntax. So probably one of the first two.
Hm. Tricky. Option 4 would be to add a sub-command for low-level requests, to break with standard requests clearly? ethtool --internals get-strset set X [dev Y]
