netdev - Re: [PATCH ethtool] ethtool: Add support for WAKE

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Message-ID: <20180730223045.GB10559@lunn.ch>
Date:   Tue, 31 Jul 2018 00:30:45 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linville@...driver.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool] ethtool: Add support for WAKE_FILTER

> One usability issue with this approach is that one cannot specify
> wake-on-LAN using WAKE_MAGICSECURE *and* WAKE_FILTER at the same time,
> since it uses the same location in the ioctl() structure that is being
> passed. Do you see this as a problem?

Hi Florian

Maybe you can think ahead to when ethtool gets a netlink
implementation, and you have more flexibility to pass both as
attributes? How does this affect the in kernel API?

	    Andrew