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[2003:ea:8bc4:dc00:8497:d0ab:971a:d627]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id n13sm8806897wrw.67.2019.03.21.14.23.43 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:23:44 -0700 (PDT) To: John Linville , Michal Kubecek Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Lunn , Florian Fainelli From: Heiner Kallweit Subject: New ethtool sub-feature and ethtool-netlink Message-ID: <4ecd48b3-92d6-38a1-11db-5c7b6a0ae341@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 22:23:36 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Michal / John, I have an ethtool extension in the pipe that adds one more PHY tunable sub-feature (for Fast Link Down support). Are smaller extensions still ok for ethtool, or IOW: When do you think is ethtool-netlink going to be stable enough so that other developers can add features? Heiner