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

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Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2016 20:16:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ethtool: Set cmd field in
 ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS response to wrong nwords

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:36:32 +0000

> 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.

My bad I thought it was needed for 4.5-final.