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>
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Michal Kubecek
2019-12-27 15:55:18 +01:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 356b23c073
commit 2b4a8990b7
8 changed files with 318 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -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.