netdev - Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Provide a default implementation of ethtool_ops::get

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Message-Id: <20100817.015024.245415197.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:50:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org, mst@...hat.com,
	izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Provide a default implementation of
 ethtool_ops::get_drvinfo

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:20:08 +0100

> The driver name and bus address for a net_device can normally be found
> through the driver model now.  Instead of requiring drivers to provide
> this information redundantly through the ethtool_ops::get_drvinfo
> operation, use the driver model to do so if the driver does not define
> the operation.  Since ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO no longer requires the driver
> to implement any operations, do not require net_device::ethtool_ops to
> be set either.
> 
> Remove implementations of get_drvinfo and ethtool_ops that provide
> only this information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Applied.
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