netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ethtool: remove XCVR

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Message-ID: <20200322154811.GC31519@unicorn.suse.cz>
Date:   Sun, 22 Mar 2020 16:48:11 +0100
From:   Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ethtool: remove XCVR_DUMMY entries

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 03:45:22PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> On 22.03.2020 15:08, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > A quick search found:
> > 
> > http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/doc/api/ethtool_8c_source.html
> > 
> I checked here http://git.infradead.org/users/tgr/libnl.git and there
> hasn't been such an ethtool.c file for ages.

I doubt it was ever part of the official libnl tree - and it certainly
never was in master branch of libnl git. It rather looks as part of an
old attempt at a netlink interface for ethtool (2010 or 2011, according
to the file banner).

Michal