2025-11-03, 16:58:42 +0800, Wang Liang wrote:
在 2025/10/31 7:13, Sabrina Dubroca 写道:
2025-10-30, 11:22:03 +0800, Wang Liang wrote:
This patch adds executable permission to script 'ethtool-features.sh', and check 'ethtool --json -k' support.
Those are two separate things, probably should be two separate patches.
Ok, I will extract the executable permission change to a new patch.
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@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ NSIM_NETDEV=$(make_netdev) set -o pipefail +if ! ethtool --json -k $NSIM_NETDEV > /dev/null 2>&1; then
I guess it's improving the situation, but I've got a system with an ethtool that accepts the --json argument, but silently ignores it for -k (ie `ethtool --json -k $DEV` succeeds but doesn't produce a json output), which will still cause the test to fail later.
That is indeed a bit strange.
I'm not sure the best way to handle this situation now. Maybe update ethtool instead of checking the output is not a bad method.
That's what Jakub was suggesting in his answer [1]. ethtool has supported json output for -k for almost 4 years, running upstream selftests with a version of ethtool older than that doesn't really make sense, so only the "permission change" patch is really needed.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20251030170217.43e544ad@kernel.org/