Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] ethtool netlink interface, part 2

Andrew Lunn
2020-01-27T13:45:29Z

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 11:32:39AM +0100, David Miller wrote:
> From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:57:44 +0100
>
> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:40:49AM +0100, David Miller wrote:
> >> From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
> >> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 23:10:58 +0100 (CET)
> >>
> >> > This shorter series adds support for getting and setting of wake-on-lan
> >> > settings and message mask (originally message level). Together with the
> >> > code already in net-next, this will allow full implementation of
> >> > "ethtool <dev>" and "ethtool -s <dev> ...".
> >> >
> >> > Older versions of the ethtool netlink series allowed getting WoL settings
> >> > by unprivileged users and only filtered out the password but this was
> >> > a source of controversy so for now, ETHTOOL_MSG_WOL_GET request always
> >> > requires CAP_NET_ADMIN as ETHTOOL_GWOL ioctl request does.
> >>
> >> It looks like this will need to be respun at least once, and net-next
> >> is closing today so....
> >
> > The problem with ethnl_parse_header() name not making it obvious that it
> > takes a reference is not introduced in this series, the function is
> > already in net-next so that it does not matter if this series is merged
> > or not. Other than that, there is only the missing "the" in
> > documentation.
>
> Ok, looks good, series applied.

Yes, i don't see anything here which cannot be fixed up later. So i
agree with merging it.

Andrew