netdev - Re: [RFC 0/3] Adding config get/set to devlink

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Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2017 23:36:31 +0200
From:   Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jiri@...nulli.us,
        roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, steven.lin1@...adcom.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...lanox.com,
        michael.chan@...adcom.com, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linville@...driver.com, gospo@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Adding config get/set to devlink

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:20:07PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 10/12/2017 12:06 PM, David Miller wrote:
> > 
> > One suggestion is that devlink is used for getting ethtool stats for
> > objects lacking netdev representor's, and a new genetlink family is
> > used for netdev based ethtool.
> 
> Right, I was also thinking along those lines that we we would have a new
> generic netlink family for ethtool to support ethtool over netlink.

This is what I plan to work on on next SUSE Hackweek in November. But
I'm, of course, open to suggestions and I don't insist on this approach.

Michal Kubecek