Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 07/12] net: shaper: implement introspection support

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:11:16 -0700

On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:17:00 +0200 Paolo Abeni wrote:
> The netlink op is a simple wrapper around the device callback.
> 
> Extend the existing fetch_dev() helper adding an attribute argument
> for the requested device. Reuse such helper in the newly implemented
> operation.

It's not just for introspection, it's also for the core to do error
checking. Does something prevent user from installing a PPS shaper 
in iavf right now ?