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Message-ID: <20241024171802.4e0f0110@kmaincent-XPS-13-7390>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:18:02 +0200
From: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Maxime Chevallier
 <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>, thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com, "David S.
 Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub
 Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Jonathan
 Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] Documentation: networking: Add missing PHY_GET
 command in the message list

On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:52:23 +0100
Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 04:15:58PM +0200, Kory Maincent wrote:
> > ETHTOOL_MSG_PHY_GET/GET_REPLY/NTF is missing in the ethtool message list.
> > Add it to the ethool netlink documentation.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
> > b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst index
> > 295563e91082..70ecc3821007 100644 ---
> > a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst +++
> > b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst @@ -236,6 +236,7 @@
> > Userspace to kernel: ``ETHTOOL_MSG_MM_GET``                get MAC merge
> > layer state ``ETHTOOL_MSG_MM_SET``                set MAC merge layer
> > parameters ``ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_FW_FLASH_ACT``   flash transceiver module
> > firmware
> > +  ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PHY_GET``               get Ethernet PHY information
> >    ===================================== =================================
> >  
> >  Kernel to userspace:
> > @@ -283,6 +284,8 @@ Kernel to userspace:
> >    ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PLCA_NTF``                 PLCA RS parameters
> >    ``ETHTOOL_MSG_MM_GET_REPLY``             MAC merge layer status
> >    ``ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_FW_FLASH_NTF``      transceiver module flash updates
> > +  ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PHY_GET_REPLY``            Ethernet PHY information
> > +  ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PHY_NTF``                  Ethernet PHY information  
> 
> I wonder if ETHTOOL_MSG_PHY_NTF should be removed.
> It doesn't seem to be used anywhere.

We can't, as it is in the ethtool UAPI. Also I believe Maxime will use it on
later patch series. Maxime, you confirm?

Regards,
-- 
Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

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