netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/3] ethtool: Change ethtool_op_set

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:10:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com,
	sgruszka@...hat.com, amit.salecha@...gic.com, amwang@...hat.com,
	anirban.chakraborty@...gic.com, dm@...lsio.com, scofeldm@...co.com,
	vkolluri@...co.com, roprabhu@...co.com,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, buytenh@...tstofly.org,
	gallatin@...i.com, brice@...i.com, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	jgarzik@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/3] ethtool: Change ethtool_op_set_flags
 to validate flags

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:44:32 +0100

> ethtool_op_set_flags() does not check for unsupported flags, and has
> no way of doing so.  This means it is not suitable for use as a
> default implementation of ethtool_ops::set_flags.
> 
> Add a 'supported' parameter specifying the flags that the driver and
> hardware support, validate the requested flags against this, and
> change all current callers to pass this parameter.
> 
> Change some other trivial implementations of ethtool_ops::set_flags to
> call ethtool_op_set_flags().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...hat.com>

Applied.
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