On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 12:50:30PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote: > On 10.06.2020 11:13, Michal Kubecek wrote: > > Just to make sure you are hitting the same problem I'm just looking at, > > please check if > > > > - your kernel is built with ETHTOOL_NETLINK=n > > No, because I have PHYLIB=m. > Not sure what it would take to allow building ethtool netlink support > as a module. But that's just on a side note.
Yes, this is the unfortunate fallout of the new dependency between ETHTOOL_NETLINK and PHYLIB introduced with the cable diagnostic series. As "make oldconfig" silently disables ETHTOOL_NETLINK when PHYLIB=m, many people won't even notice. Even I fell for this when I suddently noticed my testing merge window snapshot has ETHTOOL_NETLINK disable. I guess we will have to find some nicer solution. Michal
