On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:20:07PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: > On 10/12/2017 12:06 PM, David Miller wrote: > > > > One suggestion is that devlink is used for getting ethtool stats for > > objects lacking netdev representor's, and a new genetlink family is > > used for netdev based ethtool. > > Right, I was also thinking along those lines that we we would have a new > generic netlink family for ethtool to support ethtool over netlink. This is what I plan to work on on next SUSE Hackweek in November. But I'm, of course, open to suggestions and I don't insist on this approach. Michal Kubecek