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* [PATCH ethtool 00/19] initial netlink interface implementation for 5.6 release
@ 2020-02-16 22:46 Michal Kubecek
  2020-02-16 22:46 ` [PATCH ethtool 01/19] move UAPI header copies to a separate directory Michal Kubecek
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From: Michal Kubecek @ 2020-02-16 22:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: John Linville, netdev; +Cc: Andrew Lunn, Florian Fainelli

This series adds initial support for ethtool netlink interface provided by
kernel since 5.6-rc1. The traditional ioctl interface is still supported
for compatibility with older kernels. The netlink interface and message
formats are documented in Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst file
in kernel source tree.

Netlink interface is preferred but ethtool falls back to ioctl if netlink
interface is not available (i.e. the "ethtool" genetlink family is not
registered). It also falls back if a particular command is not implemented
in netlink (kernel returns -EOPNOTSUPP). This allows new ethtool versions
to work with older kernel versions while support for ethool commands is
added in steps.

The series aims to touch existing ioctl code as little as possible in the
first phase to minimize the risk of introducing regressions. It is also
possible to build ethtool without netlink support if --disable-netlink is
passed to configure script. The most visible changes to existing code are

  - UAPI header copies are moved to uapi/ under original names
  - some variables and functions which are going to be shared with netlink
    code are moved from ethtool.c to common.c and common.h
  - args[] array in ethtool.c was rewritten to use named initializers

Except for changes to main(), all netlink specific code is in a separate
directory netlink/ and is divided into multiple files.

Michal Kubecek (19):
  move UAPI header copies to a separate directory
  update UAPI header copies
  add --debug option to control debugging messages
  use named initializers in command line option list
  netlink: add netlink related UAPI header files
  netlink: introduce the netlink interface
  netlink: message buffer and composition helpers
  netlink: netlink socket wrapper and helpers
  netlink: initialize ethtool netlink socket
  netlink: add support for string sets
  netlink: add notification monitor
  move shared code into a common file
  netlink: add bitset helpers
  netlink: partial netlink handler for gset (no option)
  netlink: support getting wake-on-lan and debugging settings
  netlink: add basic command line parsing helpers
  netlink: add bitset command line parser handlers
  netlink: add netlink handler for sset (-s)
  netlink: support tests with netlink enabled

 Makefile.am                                  |   27 +-
 common.c                                     |  145 +++
 common.h                                     |   26 +
 configure.ac                                 |   14 +-
 ethtool.8.in                                 |   48 +-
 ethtool.c                                    |  818 ++++++++------
 internal.h                                   |   30 +-
 netlink/bitset.c                             |  201 ++++
 netlink/bitset.h                             |   25 +
 netlink/extapi.h                             |   44 +
 netlink/monitor.c                            |  229 ++++
 netlink/msgbuff.c                            |  169 +++
 netlink/msgbuff.h                            |  106 ++
 netlink/netlink.c                            |  216 ++++
 netlink/netlink.h                            |   78 ++
 netlink/nlsock.c                             |  293 +++++
 netlink/nlsock.h                             |   35 +
 netlink/parser.c                             | 1058 ++++++++++++++++++
 netlink/parser.h                             |  144 +++
 netlink/settings.c                           |  945 ++++++++++++++++
 netlink/strset.c                             |  297 +++++
 netlink/strset.h                             |   25 +
 test-cmdline.c                               |   29 +-
 test-features.c                              |   11 +
 ethtool-copy.h => uapi/linux/ethtool.h       |   17 +
 uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink.h                 |  237 ++++
 uapi/linux/genetlink.h                       |   89 ++
 net_tstamp-copy.h => uapi/linux/net_tstamp.h |   27 +
 uapi/linux/netlink.h                         |  248 ++++
 29 files changed, 5250 insertions(+), 381 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 common.c
 create mode 100644 common.h
 create mode 100644 netlink/bitset.c
 create mode 100644 netlink/bitset.h
 create mode 100644 netlink/extapi.h
 create mode 100644 netlink/monitor.c
 create mode 100644 netlink/msgbuff.c
 create mode 100644 netlink/msgbuff.h
 create mode 100644 netlink/netlink.c
 create mode 100644 netlink/netlink.h
 create mode 100644 netlink/nlsock.c
 create mode 100644 netlink/nlsock.h
 create mode 100644 netlink/parser.c
 create mode 100644 netlink/parser.h
 create mode 100644 netlink/settings.c
 create mode 100644 netlink/strset.c
 create mode 100644 netlink/strset.h
 rename ethtool-copy.h => uapi/linux/ethtool.h (99%)
 create mode 100644 uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink.h
 create mode 100644 uapi/linux/genetlink.h
 rename net_tstamp-copy.h => uapi/linux/net_tstamp.h (84%)
 create mode 100644 uapi/linux/netlink.h

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2.25.0


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2020-02-16 22:46 ` [PATCH ethtool 01/19] move UAPI header copies to a separate directory Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:46 ` [PATCH ethtool 02/19] update UAPI header copies Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:46 ` [PATCH ethtool 03/19] add --debug option to control debugging messages Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:46 ` [PATCH ethtool 04/19] use named initializers in command line option list Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:46 ` [PATCH ethtool 05/19] netlink: add netlink related UAPI header files Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:47 ` [PATCH ethtool 06/19] netlink: introduce the netlink interface Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:47 ` [PATCH ethtool 07/19] netlink: message buffer and composition helpers Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:47 ` [PATCH ethtool 08/19] netlink: netlink socket wrapper and helpers Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:47 ` [PATCH ethtool 09/19] netlink: initialize ethtool netlink socket Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:47 ` [PATCH ethtool 10/19] netlink: add support for string sets Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:47 ` [PATCH ethtool 11/19] netlink: add notification monitor Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:47 ` [PATCH ethtool 12/19] move shared code into a common file Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:47 ` [PATCH ethtool 13/19] netlink: add bitset helpers Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:47 ` [PATCH ethtool 14/19] netlink: partial netlink handler for gset (no option) Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:47 ` [PATCH ethtool 15/19] netlink: support getting wake-on-lan and debugging settings Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:47 ` [PATCH ethtool 16/19] netlink: add basic command line parsing helpers Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:47 ` [PATCH ethtool 17/19] netlink: add bitset command line parser handlers Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:48 ` [PATCH ethtool 18/19] netlink: add netlink handler for sset (-s) Michal Kubecek
2020-02-16 22:48 ` [PATCH ethtool 19/19] netlink: support tests with netlink enabled Michal Kubecek

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