Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 03:51:47PM CEST, linvi...@tuxdriver.com wrote: >On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 06:11:41PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> I've become steadily less enthusiastic and less responsive as a >> maintainer over the past year or so. I no longer work on networking >> regularly, so it takes a lot more time to get into the right state of >> mind to think about ethtool code, while I have other demands on my time >> that tend to take priority. >> >> So, I would like to find a new maintainer to take over as soon as >> possible. Ideally the new maintainer would have previous contributions >> to ethtool and an existing account on kernel.org so that they can push >> to the git repository and the home page. But neither of those is >> essential. Please reply if you're interested. > >I would like to take this responsibility. My previous contributions >to ethtool are meager, but I think my skills and interests are suited >to the task. Plus, I already have a kernel.org account... :-) > >> I was thinking of adding a TODO file to the repository, but it's really >> for the new maintainer to decide what to do. So here's my list as a >> suggestion: >> >> * Add regression test coverage for all sub-commands with complex logic >> >> * Internationalise output and error messages >> >> * Build a libethtool that handles all the API quirks and fallbacks for >> old kernel versions. This might help people writing language >> bindings or other utilities that use the ethtool API. >> >> * Provide a 'cleaned up' ethtool (under some other name) that has: >> - More conventional sub-command syntax, i.e. no '-'/'--' prefix >> - More consistent output formatting > >That seems like a reasonable start for a TODO list. I'll bet there >are a few people out there with other suggestions as well...?
Before that, I would like to see ethtool migrate to use generic netlink. Then, the new tool would be needed anyway, should exist within iproute2 package and have similar command line syntax. I have some ideas about the gennetlink ethtool, have to find some time to implement some initial part of it.
