Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 06/17] ethtool: support for netlink notifications

From: Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:16:55 +0200

Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 02:53:12PM CEST, [email-masked] wrote:

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>diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
>index c1295c7a452e..c4b0c575d57e 100644
>--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
>+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
>@@ -2444,6 +2444,7 @@ enum netdev_cmd {
> 	NETDEV_CVLAN_FILTER_DROP_INFO,
> 	NETDEV_SVLAN_FILTER_PUSH_INFO,
> 	NETDEV_SVLAN_FILTER_DROP_INFO,
>+	NETDEV_ETHTOOL,

I don't understand why this goes through netdev notifier. What's the
reason?