From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/3] ethtool: Add link down reason callback Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:40:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20170627.154046.2012864112666109026.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20170625151953.GA7799@lunn.ch> <20170626133439.GB2623@lunn.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: galp@mellanox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, saeedm@mellanox.com, vidya@cumulusnetworks.com, jiri@mellanox.com, decot@googlers.com, kernel-team@fb.com To: andrew@lunn.ch Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:44688 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753303AbdF0Tkt (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:40:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170626133439.GB2623@lunn.ch> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Andrew Lunn Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:34:39 +0200 > I still fear this is going to be an ethtool call with only one user. That is my fear as well. We are also in a sort-of moratorium for adding new major ethtool features until the conversion of ethtool over to netlink occurs.