linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v7 13/17] ethtool: add standard notification handler

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Message-ID: <20191011055619.GC2901@nanopsycho>
Date:   Fri, 11 Oct 2019 07:56:19 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        John Linville <linville@...driver.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 13/17] ethtool: add standard notification
 handler

Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 08:17:43PM CEST, mkubecek@...e.cz wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 05:25:59PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 10:59:40PM CEST, mkubecek@...e.cz wrote:

[...]


>> >+
>> >+/* generic notification handler */
>> >+static void ethnl_std_notify(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int cmd,
>> 
>> Better "common" comparing to "standard", I believe.
>
>That's similar to ethnl_std_parse(), the idea is that this is the
>standard handler for notifications which are triggered without
>additional data and the message is the same as reply to corresponding
>"GET" request (which is generated by the standard ethnl_get_doit()
>handler). Notifications for actions and notifications for SET commands
>which cannot be generated this standard way will have to use their own
>(nonstandard) handler.

So "default"? The "standard" sounds rather weird to me. It isn't any
"standard" :)