netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 06/10] net: ethtool: Add infrastructure for reporting cable test results

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Date:   Sun, 10 May 2020 20:22:52 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Chris Healy <cphealy@...il.com>, michael@...le.cc
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 06/10] net: ethtool: Add infrastructure for
 reporting cable test results

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 11:00:13AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Sun, 10 May 2020 18:07:58 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 05:12:26PM +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 06:28:47PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:  
> > > > Provide infrastructure for PHY drivers to report the cable test
> > > > results.  A netlink skb is associated to the phydev. Helpers will be
> > > > added which can add results to this skb. Once the test has finished
> > > > the results are sent to user space.
> > > > 
> > > > When netlink ethtool is not part of the kernel configuration stubs are
> > > > provided. It is also impossible to trigger a cable test, so the error
> > > > code returned by the alloc function is of no consequence.
> > > > 
> > > > v2:
> > > > Include the status complete in the netlink notification message
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>  
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
> > > 
> > > It seems you applied the changes to ethnl_cable_test_alloc() suggested
> > > in v2 review as part of patch 7 rather than here. I don't think it's
> > > necessary to fix that unless there is some actual problem that would
> > > require a resubmit.  
> > 
> > Hi Michal
> > 
> > Yes, squashed it into the wrong patch. But since all it does it change
> > one errno for another, it is unlikely to break bisect. As i agree, we
> > can live with this.
> 
> Sorry Andrew, would you mind doing one more quick spin? :(

No problem.

> More importantly we should not use the ENOTSUPP error code, AFAIU it's
> for NFS, it's not a standard error code and user space struggles to
> translate it with strerror(). Would you mind replacing all ENOTSUPPs
> with EOPNOTSUPPs?

O.K.

Would it be worth getting checkpatch warning about this?

      Andrew