From: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
To: "Björn Töpel" <bjorn@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Andrew Lunn" <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"Donald Hunter" <donald.hunter@gmail.com>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Naveen Mamindlapalli" <naveenm@marvell.com>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Danielle Ratson <danieller@nvidia.com>,
Hariprasad Kelam <hkelam@marvell.com>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>,
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>,
Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>,
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Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
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Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 03/12] ethtool: Add loopback netlink UAPI definitions
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:10:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2859dddf-a7b7-46f8-b97d-45d8be242cde@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260325145022.2607545-4-bjorn@kernel.org>
Hi Björn,
On 25/03/2026 15:50, Björn Töpel wrote:
> Add the netlink YAML spec and auto-generated UAPI header for a unified
> loopback interface covering MAC, PHY, and pluggable module components.
>
> Each loopback point is described by a nested entry attribute
Is the nest actually needed ? if everything is under the nest, you might
as well just drop it and return all the attributes directly ?
Maxime
> containing:
>
> - component where in the path (MAC, PHY, MODULE)
> - name subsystem label, e.g. "cmis-host" or "cmis-media"
> - id optional instance selector (e.g. PHY id, port id)
> - depth ordering index within a component (0 = first/only)
> - supported bitmask of supported directions
> - direction LOCAL, REMOTE, or 0 (disabled)
>
> Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@kernel.org>
>
Maxime
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-26 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-25 14:50 [PATCH net-next v2 00/12] ethtool: Generic loopback support Björn Töpel
2026-03-25 14:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 01/12] ethtool: Add dump_one_dev callback for per-device sub-iteration Björn Töpel
2026-03-25 18:20 ` Maxime Chevallier
2026-03-25 14:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 02/12] ethtool: Convert per-PHY commands to dump_one_dev Björn Töpel
2026-03-25 18:21 ` Maxime Chevallier
2026-03-25 14:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 03/12] ethtool: Add loopback netlink UAPI definitions Björn Töpel
2026-03-26 8:10 ` Maxime Chevallier [this message]
2026-03-26 8:55 ` Björn Töpel
2026-03-26 22:22 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-26 22:23 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-25 14:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 04/12] ethtool: Add loopback GET/SET netlink implementation Björn Töpel
2026-03-25 14:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 05/12] ethtool: Add CMIS loopback helpers for module loopback control Björn Töpel
2026-03-25 14:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 06/12] selftests: drv-net: Add loopback driver test Björn Töpel
2026-03-25 14:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 07/12] ethtool: Add MAC loopback support via ethtool_ops Björn Töpel
2026-03-26 9:49 ` Breno Leitao
2026-03-25 14:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 08/12] netdevsim: Add MAC loopback simulation Björn Töpel
2026-03-26 9:40 ` Breno Leitao
2026-03-25 14:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 09/12] selftests: drv-net: Add MAC loopback netdevsim test Björn Töpel
2026-03-26 9:32 ` Breno Leitao
2026-03-26 9:44 ` Björn Töpel
2026-03-25 14:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 10/12] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for ethtool loopback Björn Töpel
2026-03-25 14:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 11/12] netdevsim: Add module EEPROM simulation via debugfs Björn Töpel
2026-03-25 14:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 12/12] selftests: drv-net: Add CMIS loopback netdevsim test Björn Töpel
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