linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 05/22] ethtool: introduce ethtool netlink interface

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Message-ID: <20190328081010.GJ14297@nanopsycho>
Date:   Thu, 28 Mar 2019 09:10:10 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        John Linville <linville@...driver.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 05/22] ethtool: introduce ethtool netlink
 interface

Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 03:05:14AM CET, f.fainelli@...il.com wrote:
>
>
>On 3/27/2019 2:50 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> 
>> Why don't you have ETHTOOL_MSG_SET_FOO for set? I think that for
>> kerne->userspace the ETHTOOL_MSG_FOO if fine. I would change the
>> ordering of words thought, but it is cosmetics:
>> ETHTOOL_MSG_FOO /* kernel->userspace messages - replies, notifications */
>> ETHTOOL_MSG_FOO_GET
>> ETHTOOL_MSG_FOO_SET
>> ETHTOOL_MSG_FOO_ACT
>> 
>> What do you think?
>
>We could even name the notification explicitly with: ETHTOOL_MSG_NOTIF
>or ETHTOOL_MSG_NTF just so we spell out exactly what those messages are.

Sound good. Something like:

ETHTOOL_MSG_FOO_GET
ETHTOOL_MSG_FOO_GET_RPLY /* kernel->userspace replies to get */
ETHTOOL_MSG_FOO_SET
ETHTOOL_MSG_FOO_ACT
ETHTOOL_MSG_FOO_NTF /* kernel->userspace async messages - notifications */