netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ethtool: Set cmd field in ETHTOOL

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Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:36:32 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ethtool: Set cmd field in
 ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS response to wrong nwords

On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 19:26 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 01:05:38 +0000
> 
> > When the ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS implementation finds that userland is
> > using the wrong number of words of link mode bitmaps (or is trying to
> > find out the right numbers) it sets the cmd field to 0 in the response
> > structure.
> > 
> > This is inconsistent with the implementation of every other ethtool
> > command, so let's remove that inconsistency before it gets into a
> > stable release.
> > 
> > Fixes: 3f1ac7a700d03 ("net: ethtool: add new ETHTOOL_xLINKSETTINGS API")
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> 
> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Ben.

This doesn't need fixing in any stable release.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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