netdev - Re: [RFT PATCH v3 00/12] Cleanup and extension of netdev features

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Date:	Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:41:55 +0200
From:	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFT PATCH v3 00/12] Cleanup and extension of netdev features

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:04:40PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 06/22/2011 09:04 AM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> >v3 of a feature handling cleanup and extension series. For testing, you
> >might want user-space ethtool patched with:
> >http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/96374/
> It looks like this is not in net-next yet...any hope of this
> going in soon?

It's because the series depends on finishing conversions of all drivers
to ndo_fix/set_features. e1000e, igbvf, ixgb, ixgbevf are pending.

BTW, Jeff, what is the status of those conversions? Last version of ixgbe
patch from Donald Skidmore (sent about a month ago) was mostly ready IIUC.

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław
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