netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] IB/{nes,ipoib}: Pass supported flags to ethtool_op_set

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Date:	Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:40:26 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Roland Dreier <rolandd@...co.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, 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, Faisal Latif <faisal.latif@...el.com>,
	Chien Tung <chien.tin.tung@...el.com>,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] IB/{nes,ipoib}: Pass supported flags to
 ethtool_op_set_flags()

On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 13:08 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > Following commit 1437ce3983bcbc0447a0dedcd644c14fe833d266 "ethtool:
>  > Change ethtool_op_set_flags to validate flags", ethtool_op_set_flags
>  > takes a third parameter and cannot be used directly as an
>  > implementation of ethtool_ops::set_flags.
> 
> I assume this commit is in one of Dave's trees and breaks nes and ipoib
> because it changed the ethtool_op_set_flags prototype?

Right.

>  > Dave, Roland, you'd better decide between yourselves should apply this.
> 
> Since this depends on a commit already in Dave's tree, Dave should
> probably take it into the same tree.  I guess there's no way to roll
> this into the original patch to avoid breaking bisects once this ends up
> upstream?

Unfortunately it's too late to do that.

> anyway,
> 
> Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@...co.com>
> 
>  > +static int nes_netdev_set_flags(struct net_device *netdev, u32 flags)
>  > +{
>  > +	return ethtool_op_set_flags(netdev, flags, ETH_FLAG_LRO);
>  > +}
>  > +
>  > +
>  >  static const struct ethtool_ops nes_ethtool_ops = {
> 
> Also would have been a bit nicer to avoid adding a double blank line
> here, although that's obviously a trivial issue.

This spacing is consistent with the surrounding code.

Ben.

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