From: Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:02:19 +0100
> The discussion we had before was about flag bitfield that was there > *always*. In this case, that is not true. It is either ifindex or > ifname. Even rtnetlink has ifname as attribute. > > The flags and info_mask is just big mystery. If it is per-command, > seems natural to have it as attributes. I think flags and info_mask indeed can be moved out of this struct. I guess, in this case, I can see your point of view especially if we allow ethtool operations on non-netdev entities. So, ok, let's move forward without a base command struct and just use attributes. Thanks :)
