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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 17:18:34 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 11/14] net: pse-pd: Add support for PSE device
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On Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:27:36 +0100 Kory Maincent wrote:
> From: Kory Maincent (Dent Project) <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
> 
> Add support for a PSE device index to report the PSE controller index to
> the user through ethtool. This will be useful for future support of power
> domains and port priority management.

Can you say more? How do the PSE controllers relate to netdevs?
ethtool is primarily driven by netdev / ifindex.
If you're starting to build your own object hierarchy you may be
better off with a separate genl family.