On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 03:49:25PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > Hi Russell, Doug > > With netlink ethtool we have the possibility of adding a new API to > control this. And we can leave the IOCTL API alone, and the current > ethtool commands. We can add a new command to ethtool which uses the new API. > > Question is, do we want to do this? Would we be introducing yet more > confusion, rather than making the situation better?
The conclusion I came to was that I would document the deficiencies and do no more; I think people are used to its current quirky behaviour. -- RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line in suburbia: sync at 10.2Mbps down 587kbps up
