netdev - Re: [PATCH ethtool V3 1/2] ethtool: Add copybreak support

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Date:	Sat, 05 Sep 2015 10:48:59 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@...lanox.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, _govind@....com,
	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	Tal Alon <talal@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool V3 1/2] ethtool: Add copybreak support

On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 15:15 +0300, Hadar Hen Zion wrote:
> From: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@....com>
> 
> Add support for setting/getting driver's tx/rx_copybreak value.
> 
> Copybreak is handled through a new ethtool tunable interface.
> 
> The kernel support was added in 3.18, commit f0db9b07341 "ethtool:
> Add generic options for tunables"
[...]

So why have you sent a patch that only handles copy-break?  The kernel 
tells us the type of each tunable and ethtool should use that to decide
how to print and parse values.

Ben.

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