netdev - Re: [PATCH -next] qlcnic: fail when try to setup unsupported features

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:58:19 +0200
From:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
To:	Amit Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>,
	Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@...gic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] qlcnic: fail when try to setup unsupported
 features

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:36:04 -0500
Amit Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com> wrote:

> -	ethtool_op_set_flags(netdev, data);
> -
> -	hw_lro = (data & ETH_FLAG_LRO) ? QLCNIC_LRO_ENABLED : 0;
> +	if (data & ETH_FLAG_LRO) {
> +		hw_lro = QLCNIC_LRO_ENABLED;
> +		netdev->features |= NETIF_F_LRO;
> +	} else {
> +		hw_lro = 0;
> +		netdev->features &= ~NETIF_F_LRO;
> +	}
> 
> Above hunk is unnecessary.

Yes, I did not describe that change in the changelog. I want to
remove such usage of ethtool_op_set_flags() for my furher patches, where
I plan to add return EOPNOTSUPP to ethtool_op_set_flags().

Stanislaw
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