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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 01:34:26 +0100
From: Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 0/7] net: extend ethtool link mode bitmaps to
48 bits
>> I can send updates to other drivers, even though it's rather pointless
>> to update 1G drivers at this point for example. Please let me know,
>> but I'd prefer to do this in follow-up patches outside this first
>> patch series.
> [...]
>
> They should be changed to ensure they reject setting any of the high
> advertising flags, but it's not urgent.
if old drivers advertised a get/set_bits function while new drivers
advertised a get/set_new_bits function,
you could not updated any old drivers, and simply take care of
rejecting invalid bits in core, by calling set_new_bits if provided,
if not, rejecting bad bits and calling set_bits if no bad bits were
set.
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