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Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:37:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:37:53 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Andrew Lunn Cc: Maxime Chevallier , Simon Horman , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel Subject: Re: [bug report] net: ethtool: Introduce per-PHY DUMP operations Message-ID: References: <8cd942c4-986b-4c20-bc12-f8fc17f626c3@lunn.ch> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8cd942c4-986b-4c20-bc12-f8fc17f626c3@lunn.ch> On Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 02:10:38PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > ETHTOOL_MSG_USER_NONE, > > > ETHTOOL_MSG_FEATURES_SET, > > > ETHTOOL_MSG_CABLE_TEST_ACT, > > > ETHTOOL_MSG_CABLE_TEST_TDR_ACT, > > > ETHTOOL_MSG_TUNNEL_INFO_GET, > > > ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_FW_FLASH_ACT, > > > ETHTOOL_MSG_RSS_CREATE_ACT, > > > ETHTOOL_MSG_RSS_DELETE_ACT, > > > > While these commands don't have ethnl_request_ops handlers, they still > > have a genetlink handler, see the ethtool_genl_ops array [1] > > At least for the *_ACT commands, they are not expected in the > userspace->kernel space direction. They should only be sent by the > kernel to user space, to indicate some action has been performed, or > happened. I don't know the netlink code too well, but i assume there > is something which will throw out such commands if sent to the kernel, > without even looking at the parameters? Ah. Got it. Thanks! regards, dan carpenter