[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v2 bpf 0/5] New netdev feature flags for XDP

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:26:10 +0100 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org> writes:
> 
> > On Fri,  4 Dec 2020 11:28:56 +0100 alardam at gmail.com wrote:  
> >>  * Extend ethtool netlink interface in order to get access to the XDP
> >>    bitmap (XDP_PROPERTIES_GET). [Toke]  
> >
> > That's a good direction, but I don't see why XDP caps belong in ethtool
> > at all? We use rtnetlink to manage the progs...  
> 
> You normally use ethtool to get all the other features a device support,
> don't you?

Not really, please take a look at all the IFLA attributes. There's 
a bunch of capabilities there.

> And for XDP you even use it to configure the number of TXQs.
> 
> I mean, it could be an rtnetlink interface as well, of course, but I
> don't think it's completely weird if this goes into ethtool...