Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 2/6] rtnetlink: Add new RTM_GETEECSTATE message to get SyncE status

Machnikowski, Maciej [off-list ref] wrote:

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More importantly, why is this added to rtnetlink (routing sockets)?
It appears to be unrelated?

Looks like this should be in ethtool (it has netlink api nowadays) or
devlink.

We identified it as a generic place in previous RFCs.

Doesn't answer my question.  EECSTATE doesn't appear to be related to
anything else thats currently exposed via rtnetlink from a conceptional
point of view.

Ethtool calls are not
available in non-ethernet packet networks

Thats news to me.  ethtool ops are linked via netdevice struct.

and the concept of that functionality
is - any packet network can implement it - SONET, GPON or even wireless.

Ethtool ops expose a wide range of low-level functions not related to
ethernet, e.g. eeprom dump, interrupt coalescing settings of and so on
and so forth.

But hey, if net maintainers are ok with rtnetlink...

I just feel putting synce interaction in rtnetlink is arbitrary
and bad precendence.