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| author | Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> | 2019-12-27 15:55:18 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2019-12-27 16:40:01 -0800 |
| commit | 2b4a8990b7df55875745a80a609a1ceaaf51f322 (patch) | |
| tree | d164f30c2750d1288ea252df535aa53a4f04c4c3 /net/Kconfig | |
| parent | 356b23c073dd063427102329b296061855b912d9 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-2b4a8990b7df55875745a80a609a1ceaaf51f322.tar.gz lwn-2b4a8990b7df55875745a80a609a1ceaaf51f322.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/Kconfig | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig index 52af65e5d28c..54916b7adb9b 100644 --- a/net/Kconfig +++ b/net/Kconfig @@ -449,6 +449,14 @@ config FAILOVER migration of VMs with direct attached VFs by failing over to the paravirtual datapath when the VF is unplugged. +config ETHTOOL_NETLINK + bool "Netlink interface for ethtool" + default y + help + An alternative userspace interface for ethtool based on generic + netlink. It provides better extensibility and some new features, + e.g. notification messages. + endif # if NET # Used by archs to tell that they support BPF JIT compiler plus which flavour. |