From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D78B4C43381 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:23:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A10AE21917 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:23:51 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="oTKVpzlK" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727028AbfCUVXr (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:23:47 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-f45.google.com ([209.85.221.45]:37766 "EHLO mail-wr1-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726616AbfCUVXq (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:23:46 -0400 Received: by mail-wr1-f45.google.com with SMTP id w10so159523wrm.4; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:23:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=to:cc:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GlEgjC7rM/FH6ai247TwK0lttdcBNFbYswanrV+V0Pw=; b=oTKVpzlKfMnSuqZlTNnKHZ4INNdhQvAnpRKFzL4pEL9jyxU5goerdpCO84zyqTpe2F M5w+HIhlPtHHxp+peCO9poKWUFdkXYJ8vXw7kdvwSJgb0OpgtNO4xTomppFrCwp4OTCk cdcwOxfEIOymxmIVF0iI1K+ng9XaNuu6GTE6FvbFohLjccAyGbVSg7N4Gjm7Ss90ZMrS /kNtWMNk/WeTMp/LLJX8ylSnFkibW0vTPV2vAx7WX3I0cPX3f5wUvOHWpCKIyTEXdnES I4xZevExF5FBWWt64ad0n6d8phS7VIhGljQ5mnt9BCQiv35uPuzJf57HceeS5Ajhb1iY st7A== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:to:cc:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GlEgjC7rM/FH6ai247TwK0lttdcBNFbYswanrV+V0Pw=; b=OvMxCctDt5gm6GptLf+KIYOMwYllci1iahFE+wMGSHjjgKQAbCRYMnHEdkBvTrUqw6 eRcfWnQAQOF7QHxG32+kRgNCtKUcHqkV0Xto0VTCMglC3mRa/w/5burZLElKVX4sCKAb P0ufD+NSeZmneadXmQrR723lAVP+/tOO4nOFe8jHN0c5kJl9dEi8LajroqSRHD3tP9B5 09YGb3m2l052q/IAQNVfEJ7lVBK2y/3EyERI82sDLFwFcvCLN/j2mtyp57r+ozIgvf5s uJPhKRQd1JKiAJy8o8/ppMOHODwvgkA66wuCpQECEm4iZuKmmqNpRCifd+dw+xDudwDK zrWA== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAUOWMlStf8doTTs8B777NfO6sflHZSHR0SxFv91dSZScKNI96e1 1agGH1Sc7ctCP2GST517Z1o= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqwKmuzeHPUaSiKmDr86bmzepk+dkVNaANnVEg+duOc36OVSfclp2Jd0NREoykOI1wy227TZCQ== X-Received: by 2002:adf:cd90:: with SMTP id q16mr3889509wrj.75.1553203424989; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:23:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2003:ea:8bc4:dc00:8497:d0ab:971a:d627? (p200300EA8BC4DC008497D0AB971AD627.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [2003:ea:8bc4:dc00:8497:d0ab:971a:d627]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id n13sm8806897wrw.67.2019.03.21.14.23.43 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:23:44 -0700 (PDT) To: John Linville , Michal Kubecek Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Lunn , Florian Fainelli From: Heiner Kallweit Subject: New ethtool sub-feature and ethtool-netlink Message-ID: <4ecd48b3-92d6-38a1-11db-5c7b6a0ae341@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 22:23:36 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Hi Michal / John, I have an ethtool extension in the pipe that adds one more PHY tunable sub-feature (for Fast Link Down support). Are smaller extensions still ok for ethtool, or IOW: When do you think is ethtool-netlink going to be stable enough so that other developers can add features? Heiner