Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: ethernet: validate pause autoneg setting

[Doug Berger]

On 5/13/2020 6:49 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> So, I think consistency of implementation is more important than fixing
>> this; the current behaviour has been established for many years now.
> 
> 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?
> 
>       Andrew
> 
I think it is likely to introduce more confusion.
-Doug