netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6] ethtool: Remove fallback to old ethtool operations for ETHTOOL

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Date:	Sat, 14 May 2011 12:35:39 +0200
From:	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] ethtool: Remove fallback to old ethtool
 operations for ETHTOOL_SFEATURES

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 02:05:42AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> ethtool_set_feature_compat() squashes the feature mask into a boolean,
> which is not correct for ethtool_ops::set_flags.
> 
> We could fix this, but the fallback code for ETHTOOL_SFEATURES actually
> makes things more complicated for the ethtool utility and any other
> application using the ethtool API.  They will still need to fall back to
> the old offload control commands in order to support older kernel
> versions.  The fallback code in the kernel adds a third possibility for
> them to handle.  So make ETHTOOL_SFEATURES fail when the driver
> implements the old offload control operations, and let userland do the
> fallback.

BTW, the idea behind the compat code is that if ETHTOOL_[GS]FEATURES is
available, then there should be no need to fallback to old ops. For
a userspace tool that targets only kernels >= 2.6.39 there's no need
to care about old ops at all.

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław
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