ethtool: introduce ethtool netlink interface

Basic genetlink and init infrastructure for the netlink interface, register
genetlink family "ethtool". Add CONFIG_ETHTOOL_NETLINK Kconfig option to
make the build optional. Add initial overall interface description into
Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst, further patches will add more
detailed information.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/ethtool/netlink.c b/net/ethtool/netlink.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..59e1ebde2f15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/ethtool/netlink.c
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+#include <linux/ethtool_netlink.h>
+#include "netlink.h"
+
+/* genetlink setup */
+
+static const struct genl_ops ethtool_genl_ops[] = {
+};
+
+static struct genl_family ethtool_genl_family = {
+	.name		= ETHTOOL_GENL_NAME,
+	.version	= ETHTOOL_GENL_VERSION,
+	.netnsok	= true,
+	.parallel_ops	= true,
+	.ops		= ethtool_genl_ops,
+	.n_ops		= ARRAY_SIZE(ethtool_genl_ops),
+};
+
+/* module setup */
+
+static int __init ethnl_init(void)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = genl_register_family(&ethtool_genl_family);
+	if (WARN(ret < 0, "ethtool: genetlink family registration failed"))
+		return ret;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+subsys_initcall(ethnl_init);