[RFC PATCH] net/ncsi: Add generic netlink family

[Samuel Mendoza-Jonas]

On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 15:51 +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 4:24 PM, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas
> <sam at mendozajonas.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-02-15 at 14:50 +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > > 
> > > Would a netlink API mean we would have to write some userspace tools
> > > to perform this configuration? Do you have any code for that?
> > > 
> > 
> > And after some cleanups we have https://github.com/sammj/ncsi-netlink
> > 
> > Pretty straightforward piece of python, but it does require python-libnl
> > on the BMC which Yocto doesn't package by default.
> 
> Nice.
> 
> Where to from here? Do you want more testing on hardware?
> 
> Otherwise we should submit it upstream. We don't want to introduce any
> dependencies on the userspace API until it is merged by Dave, so
> getting the ball rolling is important.

Unless anyone has some strong opinions as to how I've laid out the API
I'll go ahead and send a proper V1 shortly - just cleaning up a few bits
at the moment, namely adding a _FORCED attribute and dropping all the
VLAN attributes in favour of just having a list of them in the channel
attribute nest.

Cheers,
Sam

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Joel