Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/8] net: ethtool: netlink: Allow per-netdevice DUMP operations

On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:15:07 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:

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This means the dump will have a different behavior in case of filtered dump
(allow_pernetdev_dump) or standard dump.
The standard dump will drop the interface device so it will dump all interfaces
even if one is specified.
The filtered dump will dump only the specified interface. 
Maybe it would be nice to have the same behavior for the dump for all the
ethtool command.
Even if this change modify the behavior of the dump for all the ethtool commands
it won't be an issue as the filtered dump did not exist before, so I suppose it
won't break anything. IMHO it is safer to do it now than later, if existing
ethtool command adds support for filtered dump.
We should find another way to know the parser is called from dump or doit.  

Let's try. We can probably make required_dev attr of
ethnl_parse_header_dev_get() a three state one: require, allow, reject?

Ah, don't think this is going to work. You're not converting all 
the dumps, just the PHY ones. It's fine either way, then.