linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] can: netlink: allow user to turn off unsupported features

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Message-ID: <20210819074514.jkg7fwztzpxecrwb@pengutronix.de>
Date:   Thu, 19 Aug 2021 09:45:14 +0200
From:   Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
To:     Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>
Cc:     linux-can@...r.kernel.org,
        Stefan Mätje <Stefan.Maetje@....eu>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] can: netlink: allow user to turn off unsupported
 features

On 15.08.2021 12:32:42, Vincent Mailhol wrote:
> The sanity checks on the control modes will reject any request related
> to an unsupported features, even turning it off.
> 
> Example on an interface which does not support CAN-FD:
> 
> $ ip link set can0 type can bitrate 500000 fd off
> RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
> 
> This patch lets such command go through (but requests to turn on an
> unsupported feature are, of course, still denied).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>

I'm planing to send a pull request to net-next today. I want to do some
more tests with this series, but this patch is more or less unrelated,
so I can take it in this PR, should I?

regards,
Marc

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