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Message-Id: <20200127.104049.2252228859572866640.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:40:49 +0100 (CET)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: mkubecek@...e.cz
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuba@...nel.org, jiri@...nulli.us,
andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, linville@...driver.com,
johannes@...solutions.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] ethtool netlink interface, part 2
From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 23:10:58 +0100 (CET)
> This shorter series adds support for getting and setting of wake-on-lan
> settings and message mask (originally message level). Together with the
> code already in net-next, this will allow full implementation of
> "ethtool <dev>" and "ethtool -s <dev> ...".
>
> Older versions of the ethtool netlink series allowed getting WoL settings
> by unprivileged users and only filtered out the password but this was
> a source of controversy so for now, ETHTOOL_MSG_WOL_GET request always
> requires CAP_NET_ADMIN as ETHTOOL_GWOL ioctl request does.
It looks like this will need to be respun at least once, and net-next
is closing today so....
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