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.