Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: ethernet: validate pause autoneg setting

Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-05-13T17:14:42Z

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 03:49:25PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Hi Russell, Doug
>
> With netlink ethtool we have the possibility of adding a new API to
> control this. And we can leave the IOCTL API alone, and the current
> ethtool commands. We can add a new command to ethtool which uses the new API.
>
> Question is, do we want to do this? Would we be introducing yet more
> confusion, rather than making the situation better?

The conclusion I came to was that I would document the deficiencies
and do no more; I think people are used to its current quirky
behaviour.

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