On Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:26:10 +0100 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org> writes: > > > On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 11:28:56 +0100 alar...@gmail.com wrote: > >> * Extend ethtool netlink interface in order to get access to the XDP > >> bitmap (XDP_PROPERTIES_GET). [Toke] > > > > That's a good direction, but I don't see why XDP caps belong in ethtool > > at all? We use rtnetlink to manage the progs... > > You normally use ethtool to get all the other features a device support, > don't you?
Not really, please take a look at all the IFLA attributes. There's a bunch of capabilities there. > And for XDP you even use it to configure the number of TXQs. > > I mean, it could be an rtnetlink interface as well, of course, but I > don't think it's completely weird if this goes into ethtool...
