linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 03/12] ethtool: set coalescing parameters with COALESCE

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Message-ID: <20200326211630.41e0329c@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 Mar 2020 21:16:30 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        John Linville <linville@...driver.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 03/12] ethtool: set coalescing parameters with
 COALESCE_SET request

On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 01:12:02 +0100 (CET) Michal Kubecek wrote:
> Implement COALESCE_SET netlink request to set coalescing parameters of
> a network device. These are traditionally set with ETHTOOL_SCOALESCE ioctl
> request. This commit adds only support for device coalescing parameters,
> not per queue coalescing parameters.
> 
> Like the ioctl implementation, the generic ethtool code checks if only
> supported parameters are modified; if not, first offending attribute is
> reported using extack.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>

Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>