[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ethtool: add new library to provide ethtool-alike APIs

[Thomas Monjalon]

2015-05-29 15:26, Liang-Min Larry Wang:
> adding a new library based upon ethdev APIs to provide API's that bear
> the same functionality as ethtool_ops (linux/ethtool.h) and net_device_ops
> (linux/netdevice.h).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Liang-Min Larry Wang <liang-min.wang at intel.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                                |   4 +
>  config/common_linuxapp                     |   5 +
>  lib/Makefile                               |   1 +
>  lib/librte_ethtool/Makefile                |  56 +++++++
>  lib/librte_ethtool/rte_ethtool.c           | 155 +++++++++++++++++
>  lib/librte_ethtool/rte_ethtool.h           | 257 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  lib/librte_ethtool/rte_ethtool_version.map |  18 ++
>  mk/rte.app.mk                              |   1 +

NACK for several reasons:
- It's unclear what benefits this ethdev wrapper is bringing
- There is no obvious interest (how is it supposed to be used?)
- There is no update in the doc/ directory

Other comments:
- the patches are not versionned
- the copyright starts in 2010

I'm curious to understand how renaming rte_eth_dev_set_mtu() to
rte_ethtool_net_change_mtu() will help anyone.