netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v11 07/13] net: ethtool: Introduce a command to list PHYs on an interface

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Message-ID: <a5e5c188-bae8-4827-914a-e089cd0bf5c9@lunn.ch>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 17:58:41 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
	Herve Codina <herve.codina@...tlin.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
	Köry Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Marek Behún <kabel@...nel.org>,
	Piergiorgio Beruto <piergiorgio.beruto@...il.com>,
	Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>,
	Nicolò Veronese <nicveronese@...il.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, mwojtas@...omium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v11 07/13] net: ethtool: Introduce a command to
 list PHYs on an interface

On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 11:29:57AM +0200, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> As we have the ability to track the PHYs connected to a net_device
> through the link_topology, we can expose this list to userspace. This
> allows userspace to use these identifiers for phy-specific commands and
> take the decision of which PHY to target by knowing the link topology.
> 
> Add PHY_GET and PHY_DUMP, which can be a filtered DUMP operation to list
> devices on only one interface.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>

It would be good if Jakub reviewed this as well, since i don't know
netlink too well. But:

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew