netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Control VF link state

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Date:	Tue, 21 May 2013 14:43:07 -0700
From:	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
To:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>
CC:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	amirv@...lanox.com, ronye@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Control VF link state

[...]

>> The risk I see with extensible operations (and which has occurred with
>> many ethtool operations) is that drivers may quietly ignore the elements
>> they don't implement.  So either (1) add yet another specific operation
>> or (2) define a general VF setter, require drivers to set some flags
>> that indicate which VF attributes are settable, and check the flags in
>> rtnetlink.c before calling into the driver.
>
> both (1) and (2) makes sense to me, I am more leaned to (2), John, do
> we have a go from your side to post V1 for net-next? which of the
> options makes more sense to you?
>
> Or.
>

Either is fine if you prefer (2) that works for me. I'll get it
working with ixgbe after you post it.

.John
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