netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/10] genetlink: support per-command policy dump

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Date:   Fri, 2 Oct 2020 18:55:01 +0200
From:   Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch, jiri@...nulli.us,
        dsahern@...nel.org, pablo@...filter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/10] genetlink: support per-command policy
 dump

On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 08:25:17AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 17:13:28 +0200 Johannes Berg wrote:
> > I suppose, I thought you wanted to change it to have separate dump/do
> > policies? Whatever you like there, I don't really care much :)
> 
> I just want to make the uAPI future-proof for now.
> 
> At a quick look ethtool doesn't really accept any attributes but
> headers for GET requests. DO and DUMP are the same there so it's 
> not a priority for me.

This is likely to change, for -x / --show-rxfh-indir / --show-rxfh we
will neeed to specify RSS context id. This is also an example where
different policy for doit and dumpit would make sense.

Michal