On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 01:45:47PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us>
> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:02:19 +0100
> 
> > The discussion we had before was about flag bitfield that was there
> > *always*. In this case, that is not true. It is either ifindex or
> > ifname. Even rtnetlink has ifname as attribute.
> > 
> > The flags and info_mask is just big mystery. If it is per-command,
> > seems natural to have it as attributes.
> 
> I think flags and info_mask indeed can be moved out of this struct.
> 
> I guess, in this case, I can see your point of view especially if we
> allow ethtool operations on non-netdev entities.
> 
> So, ok, let's move forward without a base command struct and just
> use attributes.

OK, I'll rework the interface to use attributes for all data.

Michal Kubecek

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