netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 03/10] ethtool: allow ethtool op set

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Message-ID: <20250210160823.2b9c233d@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:08:23 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, David
 Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Simon
 Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Russell King - ARM Linux
 <linux@...linux.org.uk>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 03/10] ethtool: allow ethtool op set_eee to
 set an NL extack message

On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 00:22:08 +0100 Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Would this approach be acceptable?

I don't think so. We considered this for ndos, IIRC, global state can
lead to bugs.