netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 5/6] enic: feature add: add ethtool -c/C support

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Date:	Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:13:19 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Scott Feldman <scofeldm@...co.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 5/6] enic: feature add: add ethtool -c/C
	support

On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 18:21 -0800, Scott Feldman wrote:
> From: Scott Feldman <scofeldm@...co.com>
> 
> Only rx_usec and tx_usec options for ethtool -C are settable as those
> are the only settings that make sense to HW.  Adds driver reporting of 
> intr coalescing timer value in usec units rather than HW units.
[...]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/enic/enic_main.c b/drivers/net/enic/enic_main.c
> index 019b148..81cc68d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/enic/enic_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/enic/enic_main.c
> @@ -261,7 +261,63 @@ static void enic_set_msglevel(struct net_device *netdev, u32 value)
>  	enic->msg_enable = value;
>  }
>  
> -static const struct ethtool_ops enic_ethtool_ops = {
[...]
> +static struct ethtool_ops enic_ethtool_ops = {
[...]

I don't see any reason to remove the const here.  Is that an accidental
change?

Ben.

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