netdev - Re: ethtool 5.7: netlink ENOENT error when setting WOL

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Date:   Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:35:30 +0200
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ethtool 5.7: netlink ENOENT error when setting WOL

On 10.06.2020 13:53, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 12:50:30PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> On 10.06.2020 11:13, Michal Kubecek wrote:
>>> Just to make sure you are hitting the same problem I'm just looking at,
>>> please check if
>>>
>>> - your kernel is built with ETHTOOL_NETLINK=n
>>
>> No, because I have PHYLIB=m.
>> Not sure what it would take to allow building ethtool netlink support
>> as a module. But that's just on a side note.
> 
> Yes, this is the unfortunate fallout of the new dependency between
> ETHTOOL_NETLINK and PHYLIB introduced with the cable diagnostic series.
> As "make oldconfig" silently disables ETHTOOL_NETLINK when PHYLIB=m,
> many people won't even notice. Even I fell for this when I suddently
> noticed my testing merge window snapshot has ETHTOOL_NETLINK disable.
> I guess we will have to find some nicer solution.
> 

Seems that disabling ETHTOOL_NETLINK for PHYLIB=m has (at least) one
more side effect. I just saw that ifconfig doesn't report LOWER_UP
any longer. Reason seems to be that the ioctl fallback supports
16 bits for the flags only (and IFF_LOWER_UP is bit 16).
See dev_ifsioc_locked().

> Michal
> 
Heiner