Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/8] net: ethtool: netlink: Allow per-netdevice DUMP operations

[Maxime Chevallier]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:22:02 -0700
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:15:07 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > This means the dump will have a different behavior in case of filtered dump
> > > (allow_pernetdev_dump) or standard dump.
> > > The standard dump will drop the interface device so it will dump all interfaces
> > > even if one is specified.
> > > The filtered dump will dump only the specified interface. 
> > > Maybe it would be nice to have the same behavior for the dump for all the
> > > ethtool command.
> > > Even if this change modify the behavior of the dump for all the ethtool commands
> > > it won't be an issue as the filtered dump did not exist before, so I suppose it
> > > won't break anything. IMHO it is safer to do it now than later, if existing
> > > ethtool command adds support for filtered dump.
> > > We should find another way to know the parser is called from dump or doit.    
> > 
> > Let's try. We can probably make required_dev attr of
> > ethnl_parse_header_dev_get() a three state one: require, allow, reject?  
> 
> Ah, don't think this is going to work. You're not converting all 
> the dumps, just the PHY ones. It's fine either way, then.

Yeah I noticed that when implementing, but I actually forgot to mention
in in my cover, which I definitely should have :(

What we can also do is properly support multi-phy dump but not filtered
dump on all the existing phy commands (plca, pse-pd, etc.) so that be
behaviour is unchanged for these. Only PHY_GET and any future per-phy
commands would support it.

Maxime