Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/5] ethtool netlink interface, preliminary part

[David Miller]

From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:58:09 +0100 (CET)

> 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.
> 
> Changes from v2 to v3: fix SPDX licence identifiers (patch 3 and 5).
> 
> Changes from v1 to v2: restore build time check that all link modes have
> assigned a name (patch 5).

Series applied to net-next, thanks.