RE: [RFC PATCH 04/10] net: hns3: Add "promisc mode" config info query function

[Salil Mehta]

> From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, November 9, 2018 10:49 PM
> To: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; yuvalm@xxxxxxxxxxxx; leon@xxxxxxxxxx;
> Zhuangyuzeng (Yisen) <yisen.zhuang@xxxxxxxxxx>; lipeng (Y)
> <lipeng321@xxxxxxxxxx>; mehta.salil@xxxxxxxxxx; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Linuxarm
> <linuxarm@xxxxxxxxxx>; Liuzhongzhu <liuzhongzhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 04/10] net: hns3: Add "promisc mode" config info
> query function
> 
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 10:07:37PM +0000, Salil Mehta wrote:
> > From: liuzhongzhu <liuzhongzhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch prints promiscuous mode status.
> 
> netstat -i
> 
> Iface      MTU    RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR    TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-
> OVR Flg
> lo       65536   871698      0      0 0        871698      0      0
> 0 LRU
> tun0      1500  1052639      0      0 0       1013998      0      0
> 0 MOPRU
> 
> The flag P means promisc.

sure, got the point. Anything which is available in the tools should be
avoided in the debugfs?

Many thanks