netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] net: advertise 'netns local' property via netlink

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Message-ID: <300eefd4-2813-429a-b853-601518e20d98@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:34:59 +0100
From: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
To: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
CC: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski
	<kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Eric Dumazet
	<edumazet@...gle.com>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>, Andrew Lunn
	<andrew@...n.ch>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] net: advertise 'netns local' property via
 netlink

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:02:35 +0100

> Since commit 05c1280a2bcf ("netdev_features: convert NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL to
> dev->netns_local"), there is no way to see if the netns_local property is
> set on a device. Let's add a netlink attribute to advertise it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>

Meh, I was sure nobody looks at those read-only Ethtool "features"...

Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>

> ---
>  Documentation/netlink/specs/rt_link.yaml | 3 +++
>  include/uapi/linux/if_link.h             | 1 +
>  net/core/rtnetlink.c                     | 3 +++
>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

Thanks,
Olek