linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] enic: add ethtool get

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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:01:05 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Jon Kohler <jon@...anix.com>
Cc: Christian Benvenuti <benve@...co.com>,
	Satish Kharat <satishkh@...co.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] enic: add ethtool get_channel support

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 06:59:15PM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 09:01:46AM -0700, Jon Kohler wrote:
> > Add .get_channel to enic_ethtool_ops to enable basic ethtool -l
> > support to get the current channel configuration.
> 
> This is nice :)
> 
> > Note that the driver does not support dynamically changing queue
> > configuration, so .set_channel is intentionally unused. Instead, users
> > should use Cisco's hardware management tools (UCSM/IMC) to modify
> > virtual interface card configuration out of band.
> 
> That is a shame :(
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Jon Kohler <jon@...anix.com>
> 
> Sad face aside, this looks good to me.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>

Oops, I failed to notice that Przemek Kitszel has some questions about this
regarding issues that I overlooked. So I'll have to take my tag back for now.

Sorry for the noise.