[PATCH net-next v2 0/5] ethtool netlink interface, preliminary part

[Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>]

As Jakub Kicinski suggested in ethtool netlink v7 discussion, this
submission consists only of preliminary patches which raised no objections;
first four patches already have Acked-by or Reviewed-by.

- patch 1 exposes permanent hardware address (as shown by "ethtool -P")
  via rtnetlink
- patch 2 is renames existing netlink helper to a better name
- patch 3 and 4 reorganize existing ethtool code (no functional change)
- patch 5 makes the table of link mode names available as an ethtool string
  set (will be needed for the netlink interface) 

Once we get these out of the way, v8 of the first part of the ethtool
netlink interface will follow.

Michal Kubecek (5):
  rtnetlink: provide permanent hardware address in RTM_NEWLINK
  netlink: rename nl80211_validate_nested() to nla_validate_nested()
  ethtool: move to its own directory
  ethtool: move string arrays into common file
  ethtool: provide link mode names as a string set

 include/net/netlink.h                   |   8 +-
 include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h            |   2 +
 include/uapi/linux/if_link.h            |   1 +
 net/Makefile                            |   2 +-
 net/core/Makefile                       |   2 +-
 net/core/rtnetlink.c                    |   5 +
 net/ethtool/Makefile                    |   3 +
 net/ethtool/common.c                    | 171 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/ethtool/common.h                    |  22 +++
 net/{core/ethtool.c => ethtool/ioctl.c} |  90 ++-----------
 net/wireless/nl80211.c                  |   3 +-
 11 files changed, 219 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 net/ethtool/Makefile
 create mode 100644 net/ethtool/common.c
 create mode 100644 net/ethtool/common.h
 rename net/{core/ethtool.c => ethtool/ioctl.c} (95%)

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