netdev - RE: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH net-next-2.6 3/3] vmxnet3: Remove incorrect implementation of ethtool_ops::get

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:58:54 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@...are.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@...are.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH net-next-2.6 3/3] vmxnet3: Remove
 incorrect implementation of ethtool_ops::get_flags()

On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 08:44 -0700, Bhavesh Davda wrote:
> Thanks for fixing this, Ben! Had to look at ethtool-2.6.34 src to
> convince myself of the correctness. Looks good to me. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@...are.com>
> 
> ps: I do wonder, however, why not always use ethtool_op_get_flags for
> all drivers, and mask whatever is returned by the driver specific
> dev->ethtool_ops->get_flags with flags_dup_features instead of this
> approach?

I think you're right that ethtool_op_get_flags could be the implicit
default (i.e. used if ethtool_ops::get_flags is NULL) and drivers should
not have to set it.  Following this change, no drivers in net-next-2.6
will be using any other implementation.  However, I don't think
ethtool_ops::get_flags should be removed - in future there are likely to
be additional ethtool flags that do not correspond to net device feature
flags, and some drivers will need a different implementation.

Ben.

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