On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:41:11 +0100 Florian Westphal wrote: > > and the concept of that functionality > > is - any packet network can implement it - SONET, GPON or even wireless. > > Ethtool ops expose a wide range of low-level functions not related to > ethernet, e.g. eeprom dump, interrupt coalescing settings of and so on > and so forth. > > But hey, if net maintainers are ok with rtnetlink... I agree, this has been brought up by 5 people or so already.