Merge branch 'netdev_features-start-cleaning-netdev_features_t-up'

Alexander Lobakin says:

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netdev_features: start cleaning netdev_features_t up

NETDEV_FEATURE_COUNT is currently 64, which means we can't add any new
features as netdev_features_t is u64.
As per several discussions, instead of converting netdev_features_t to
a bitmap, which would mean A LOT of changes, we can try cleaning up
netdev feature bits.
There's a bunch of bits which don't really mean features, rather device
attributes/properties that can't be changed via Ethtool in any of the
drivers. Such attributes can be moved to netdev private flags without
losing any functionality.

Start converting some read-only netdev features to private flags from
the ones that are most obvious, like lockless Tx, inability to change
network namespace etc. I was able to reduce NETDEV_FEATURE_COUNT from
64 to 60, which mean 4 free slots for new features. There are obviously
more read-only features to convert, such as highDMA, "challenged VLAN",
HSR (4 bits) - this will be done in subsequent series.

Please note that currently netdev features are not uAPI/ABI by any means.
Ethtool passes their names and bits to the userspace separately and there
are no hardcoded names/bits in the userspace, so that new Ethtool could
work on older kernels and vice versa.
This, however, isn't true for Ethtools < 3.4. I haven't changed the bit
positions of the already existing features and instead replaced the freed
bits with stubs. But it's anyway theoretically possible that Ethtools
older than 2011 will break. I hope no currently supported distros supply
such an ancient version.
Shell scripts also most likely won't break since the removed bits were
always read-only, meaning nobody would try touching them from a script.
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240829123340.789395-1-aleksander.lobakin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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