Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] ethtool: runtime-resume netdev parent before ethtool ops

[Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>]

On 01.08.2021 12:35, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> If a network device is runtime-suspended then:
> - network device may be flagged as detached and all ethtool ops (even if
>   not accessing the device) will fail because netif_device_present()
>   returns false
> - ethtool ops may fail because device is not accessible (e.g. because being
>   in D3 in case of a PCI device)
> 
> It may not be desirable that userspace can't use even simple ethtool ops
> that not access the device if interface or link is down. To be more friendly
> to userspace let's ensure that device is runtime-resumed when executing
> ethtool ops in kernel.
> 
> This patch series covers the typical case that the netdev parent is power-
> managed, e.g. a PCI device. Not sure whether cases exist where the netdev
> itself is power-managed. If yes then we may need an extension for this.
> But the series as-is at least shouldn't cause problems in that case.
> 
> Heiner Kallweit (4):
>   ethtool: runtime-resume netdev parent before ethtool ioctl ops
>   ethtool: move implementation of ethnl_ops_begin/complete to netlink.c
>   ethtool: move netif_device_present check from
>     ethnl_parse_header_dev_get to ethnl_ops_begin
>   ethtool: runtime-resume netdev parent in ethnl_ops_begin
> 
>  net/ethtool/ioctl.c   | 18 ++++++++++++++---
>  net/ethtool/netlink.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  net/ethtool/netlink.h | 15 ++-------------
>  3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 

Patchwork is showing the following warning for all patches in the series.

netdev/cc_maintainers	warning	7 maintainers not CCed: ecree@solarflare.com andrew@lunn.ch magnus.karlsson@intel.com danieller@nvidia.com arnd@arndb.de irusskikh@marvell.com alexanderduyck@fb.com

This seems to be a false positive, e.g. address ecree@solarflare.com
doesn't exist at all in MAINTAINERS file.