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

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Date:   Thu, 1 Oct 2020 17:36:44 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch, johannes@...solutions.net,
        jiri@...nulli.us, mkubecek@...e.cz, dsahern@...nel.org,
        pablo@...filter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/10] genetlink: support per-command policy
 dump

On Thu,  1 Oct 2020 15:59:23 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The objective of this series is to dump ethtool policies
> to be able to tell which flags are supported by the kernel.
> Current release adds ETHTOOL_FLAG_STATS for dumping extra
> stats, but because of strict checking we need to make sure
> that the flag is actually supported before setting it in
> a request.

Do we need support for separate .doit and .dumpit policies?
Or is that an overkill?