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It aims to address some long known issues with the ioctl > interface, mainly lack of extensibility, raciness, limited error reporting > and absence of notifications. The goal is to allow userspace ethtool > utility to provide all features it currently does but without using the > ioctl interface. However, some features provided by ethtool ioctl API will > be available through other netlink interfaces (rtnetlink, devlink) if it's > more appropriate. > > The interface uses generic netlink family "ethtool" and provides multicast > group "monitor" which is used for notifications. Documentation for the > interface is in Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst file. The > netlink interface is optional, it is built when CONFIG_ETHTOOL_NETLINK > (bool) option is enabled. > > There are three types of request messages distinguished by suffix "_GET" > (query for information), "_SET" (modify parameters) and "_ACT" (perform an > action). Kernel reply messages have name with additional suffix "_REPLY" > (e.g. ETHTOOL_MSG_SETTINGS_GET_REPLY). Most "_SET" and "_ACT" message types > do not have matching reply type as only some of them need additional reply > data beyond numeric error code and extack. Kernel also broadcasts > notification messages ("_NTF" suffix) on changes. Thanks for re-posting these patches again, would you have ethtool and iproute2 branches with your latest ethnl patches applied? I did find your ethnl directory on your github, but it applies to a slightly oldish ethtool version. If you could maintain forks with an "ethnl" branch there, that would help greatly. I will continue reviewing from there on, but also wanted to give it a spin to get a feel. Thanks! -- Florian