netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH ethtool] ethtool: Improve compatibility between netlink and ioctl interfaces

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Date:   Thu, 5 Nov 2020 14:43:29 +0200
From:   Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
To:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuba@...nel.org, mlxsw@...dia.com,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH ethtool] ethtool: Improve compatibility between
 netlink and ioctl interfaces

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 12:05:18PM +0200, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 12:55:01AM +0100, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 04:24:30PM +0200, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> > > 
> > > I have the changes you requested here:
> > > https://github.com/idosch/ethtool/commit/b34d15839f2662808c566c04eda726113e20ee59
> > > 
> > > Do you want to integrate it with your nl_parse() rework or should I?
> > 
> > I pushed the combined series to
> > 
> >   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkubecek/ethtool.git
> > 
> > as branch mk/master/advertise-all. I only ran few quick tests so far,
> > it's not submission ready yet.
> > 
> > First two patches are unrelated fixes found while testing, I'm going to
> > submit and push them separately. Third patch reworks nl_parser()
> > handling of multiple request messages as indicated in my previous mail.
> > Fourth patch is the ioctl compatibility fix.
> 
> Great, thank you. I pushed the patches to our regression. Will go over
> the results tomorrow and let you know.

Looks OK. Thanks again.