On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 21:14 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > These look like the statistic names specified in IEEE 802.3. I would > support a general move to using standard names for MAC stats in Ethernet > drivers, because they are quite clearly defined and widely implemented > in hardware. However, that is not the current practice in most Linux > drivers. Hey Ben. Maybe something like this would be a start? Change the actual #defines/strings to taste. Maybe this shouldn't be in uapi or maybe in if_ether.h --- include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h index fd161e9..24b8b51 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h @@ -498,6 +498,36 @@ struct ethtool_pauseparam { #define ETH_GSTRING_LEN 32 +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_PKTS "rx_packets" +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_BYTES "rx_bytes" +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_TOTAL_BYTES "rx_total_bytes" +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_TOTAL_PKTS "rx_total_packets" +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_CRC_ERRS "rx_crc_errors" +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_ALIGN_ERRS "rx_align_errors" +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_PAUSE "rx_pause" +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_ERRS "rx_errors" +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_UNICAST "rx_unicast" +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_MULTICAST "rx_multicast" +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_BROADCAST "rx_broadcast" +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_FIFO_DROPS "rx_fifo_drops" +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_UNDERSIZE "rx_undersize" +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_OVERSIZE "rx_oversize" +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_DUPLICATES "rx_duplicates" +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_DROPPED "rx_dropped" +#define ETH_GSTRING_RX_FRAGMENTS "rx_fragments" + +#define ETH_GSTRING_TX_PKTS "tx_packets" +#define ETH_GSTRING_TX_BYTES "tx_bytes" +#define ETH_GSTRING_TX_TOTAL_BYTES "tx_total_bytes" +#define ETH_GSTRING_TX_TOTAL_PKTS "tx_total_packets" +#define ETH_GSTRING_TX_PAUSE "tx_pause" +#define ETH_GSTRING_TX_ERRS "tx_errors" +#define ETH_GSTRING_TX_DISCARDS "tx_discards" +#define ETH_GSTRING_TX_UNICAST "tx_unicast" +#define ETH_GSTRING_TX_MULTICAST "tx_multicast" +#define ETH_GSTRING_TX_BROADCAST "tx_broadcast" +#define ETH_GSTRING_TX_DROPPED "tx_dropped" + /** * enum ethtool_stringset - string set ID * @ETH_SS_TEST: Self-test result names, for use with %ETHTOOL_TEST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html