On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 11:17:54AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:49:39 +0000 Manish Chopra wrote: > > As ethtool over netlink has some limitations of the size, > > I believe you can configure ethtool with "--disable-netlink" and set those > > message levels fine > > Yup, IIUC it works for Paul on a 5.17 system, that system likely has > old ethtool user space tool which uses ioctls instead of netlink. > > What makes the netlink path somewhat non-trivial is that there is > an expectation that the communication can be based on names (strings) > as well as bit positions. I think we'd need a complete parallel > attribute to carry vendor specific bits :S
Yes, that would be a way to go. However, in such case I would prefer separating these driver/device specific message flags completely rather then letting drivers grab currently unused flags (as is the case here, IIUC) as those are likely to collide with future global ones. Michal
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