Re: [PATCH ethtool 0/7] Generic netdev features support

[Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 17:45 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 01:33:47 +0100
> Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > This series adds support for the not-so-new generic netdev features
> > ethtool API, along with some test infrastructure and test cases to check
> > that it works with old and new kernel versions.  I'm still not convinced
> > that there are enough test cases, but I've held this back for too damn
> > long already.
> > 
> > I'd like to include these changes in an ethtool 3.4 release by the end
> > of next week, so let me know if there's anything wrong with them.
> > 
> > Ben.
> 
> Slightly off-topic, is anyone working on doing ethtool setting over netlink?

I'm not.  I seem to remember you brought this up at netconf 2010 but I
don't remember what your motivation was.  Were you thinking about being
able to monitor for changes, for example?

Ben.

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