Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v3 00/21] ethtool netlink interface, part 1

2019-02-21 Thread Michal Kubecek
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 07:21:18PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > Main changes between RFC v2 and RFC v3: > > > > - do not allow building as a module (no netdev notifiers needed) > > I would very much prefer that we could build this as a module. Some > systems might be memory constrained or o

Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v3 00/21] ethtool netlink interface, part 1

2019-02-20 Thread Florian Fainelli
Hi Michal, Let me start with a big thank you for tackling this humongous amount of work! On 2/18/2019 10:21 AM, Michal Kubecek wrote: > Note: this is marked as RFC because it's rather late in the cycle; the plan > is to make a regular submission (with changes based on review) once > net-next reop

Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v3 00/21] ethtool netlink interface, part 1

2019-02-19 Thread Jiri Pirko
Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 12:57:27PM CET, mkube...@suse.cz wrote: >On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:35:08AM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> >- some features provided by ethtool would rather belong to devlink (and >> > some are already superseded by devlink); however, only few drivers >> > provide devlink interf

Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v3 00/21] ethtool netlink interface, part 1

2019-02-19 Thread Michal Kubecek
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:35:08AM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote: > >- some features provided by ethtool would rather belong to devlink (and > > some are already superseded by devlink); however, only few drivers > > provide devlink interface at the moment and as recent discussion on > > flashing revea

Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v3 00/21] ethtool netlink interface, part 1

2019-02-19 Thread Jiri Pirko
Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 07:21:24PM CET, mkube...@suse.cz wrote: >Note: this is marked as RFC because it's rather late in the cycle; the plan >is to make a regular submission (with changes based on review) once >net-next reopens after the 5.1 merge window. The full (work in progress) >series, together

[RFC PATCH net-next v3 00/21] ethtool netlink interface, part 1

2019-02-18 Thread Michal Kubecek
Note: this is marked as RFC because it's rather late in the cycle; the plan is to make a regular submission (with changes based on review) once net-next reopens after the 5.1 merge window. The full (work in progress) series, together with the (userspace) ethtool counterpart can be found at https://