netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] ethtool: allow dumping policies to user space

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Message-Id: <20201006.062618.628708952352439429.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 06 Oct 2020 06:26:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com,
        jiri@...nulli.us, andrew@...n.ch, mkubecek@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] ethtool: allow dumping policies to
 user space

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 08:43:17 +0200

> On Mon, 2020-10-05 at 15:07 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> This series wires up ethtool policies to ops, so they can be
>> dumped to user space for feature discovery.
>> 
>> First patch wires up GET commands, and second patch wires up SETs.
>> 
>> The policy tables are trimmed to save space and LoC.
>> 
>> Next - take care of linking up nested policies for the header
>> (which is the policy what we actually care about). And once header
>> policy is linked make sure that attribute range validation for flags
>> is done by policy, not a conditions in the code. New type of policy
>> is needed to validate masks (patch 6).
>> 
>> Netlink as always staying a step ahead of all the other kernel
>> API interfaces :)
 ...
> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>

Series applied, thanks everyone.