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Message-ID: <1406991970.30258.47.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 16:06:10 +0100
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, _govind@....com,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, ssujith@...co.com, benve@...co.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] ethtool: Add support for DMA buffer
settings
On Sat, 2014-08-02 at 07:26 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
[...]
> Looks like you just reinvented netlink :-)
Badly? ;-)
> I wish ethtool would die.
> It has fixed size static structures and has no notification mechanism.
>
> If we could just get all the ethtool features into netlink, under IF_LINK
> then most of this could go away.
It doesn't go away, it just stops growing.
I know we've talked about this before and I agree in principle. *But*
neither you nor anyone else proposed how to get there from here.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.
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