Re: [PATCH net-next v7 00/17] ethtool netlink interface, part 1

On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 17:48 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

On Wed,  9 Oct 2019 22:59:00 +0200 (CEST), Michal Kubecek wrote:

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This is first part of netlink based alternative userspace interface for
ethtool. It aims to address some long known issues with the ioctl
interface, mainly lack of extensibility, raciness, limited error reporting
and absence of notifications. The goal is to allow userspace ethtool
utility to provide all features it currently does but without using the
ioctl interface. However, some features provided by ethtool ioctl API will
be available through other netlink interfaces (rtnetlink, devlink) if it's
more appropriate.

Looks like perhaps with ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_RFLAGS checking taken out of
the picture we can proceed as is and potentially work on defining some
best practices around attrs and nesting for the future generations? :)

I was trying to find a way to perhaps start merging something.. Would
it make sense to spin out patches 1, 2, 3, and 8 as they seem to be
ready (possibly 11, too if the reorder isn't painful)?

I was surprised 3 didn't go in even last time this was posted, it seems
such an obvious thing and not necessary just for ethtool :)

johannes