Hi Florian,

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 08:05:30PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> In preparation for adding another layer of call into a DSA stacked ops
> singleton, wrap the ndo_do_ioctl() call into dev_do_ioctl().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
> ---

I missed most of the context, but this looks interesting. Am I correct
in saying that this could save us from having to manually pass
phy_mii_ioctl() and that it could be generically handled here?

>  net/core/dev_ioctl.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
> index 547b587c1950..a213c703c90a 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
> @@ -225,6 +225,22 @@ static int net_hwtstamp_validate(struct ifreq *ifr)
>       return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static int dev_do_ioctl(struct net_device *dev,
> +                     struct ifreq *ifr, unsigned int cmd)
> +{
> +     const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;
> +     int err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +
> +     if (ops->ndo_do_ioctl) {
> +             if (netif_device_present(dev))
> +                     err = ops->ndo_do_ioctl(dev, ifr, cmd);
> +             else
> +                     err = -ENODEV;
> +     }
> +
> +     return err;
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   *   Perform the SIOCxIFxxx calls, inside rtnl_lock()
>   */
> @@ -323,13 +339,7 @@ static int dev_ifsioc(struct net *net, struct ifreq 
> *ifr, unsigned int cmd)
>                   cmd == SIOCSHWTSTAMP ||
>                   cmd == SIOCGHWTSTAMP ||
>                   cmd == SIOCWANDEV) {
> -                     err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> -                     if (ops->ndo_do_ioctl) {
> -                             if (netif_device_present(dev))
> -                                     err = ops->ndo_do_ioctl(dev, ifr, cmd);
> -                             else
> -                                     err = -ENODEV;
> -                     }
> +                     err = dev_do_ioctl(dev, ifr, cmd);
>               } else
>                       err = -EINVAL;
>  
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 

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