On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 16:19 -0700, David Decotigny wrote: > will send a v5 shortly without this patch: question below. > > about this patch: this is in prevision of a world where INET can be > compiled out. So it is not something that matters today with current > kernels.
OK.
> Now, as you mentioned in another patch, the only socket that survives
> various reasonable CONFIG_* gymnastics is netlink. So even though
> non-IPv4 kernels with IP support is not feasible today, I believe
> there is some logic to using netlink sockets for ethtool purposes,
> instead of IPv4 or IPv6 sockets. Shall I propose a patch to add
> ethtool support on AF_NETLINK sockets, and update the tool to try
> AF_INET first for backward compatibility reasons, then fallback to
> AF_NETLINK?
Yes, please do that.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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