Comment 8 for bug 1750989

There are a few issues with very kernel dependent tools like ethtool but also e.g. ip.
Some would want to get the newest version, especially to work better with HWE Kernels.
But clearly that would be a huge regression risk due to e.g. changed output breaking scripts.
There is no perfect solution yet, we discussed about an hwe-ethtool that conflicts with base ethtool and adding a suggest on the linux-hwe kernel.
But all that is currently only an open discussion and nothing is committed yet.

@smb - FYI this is one of the cases I meant when bringing up the discussion