netdev - RE: [PATCH] ixgb: Convert to new vlan model.

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Date:	Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:09:12 -0700
From:	"Tantilov, Emil S" <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"Duyck, Alexander H" <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] ixgb: Convert to new vlan model.

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 19:42 -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> This switches the ixgb driver to use the new vlan interfaces.
>> In doing this, it completes the work begun in
>> ae54496f9e8d40c89e5668205c181dccfa9ecda1 allowing the use of
>> hardware vlan insertion without having a vlan group configured. [...]
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_ethtool.c
>> b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_ethtool.c 
>> index 43994c1..0e4c527 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_ethtool.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_ethtool.c
>> @@ -706,6 +706,45 @@ ixgb_get_strings(struct net_device *netdev, u32
>>  stringset, u8 *data)  	} }
>> 
>> +static int ixgb_set_flags(struct net_device *netdev, u32 data) +{
>> +	struct ixgb_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev); +	bool
>> need_reset; +	int rc;
>> +
>> +	/* The hardware requires that RX vlan stripping and TX vlan
>> insertion +	 * be configured together.  Therefore, if one setting
>> changes adjust the +	 * other one to match. +	 */
>> +	if (!!(data & ETH_FLAG_RXVLAN) != !!(data & ETH_FLAG_TXVLAN)) {
>> +		if ((data & ETH_FLAG_RXVLAN) !=
>> +		    (netdev->features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX))
>> +			data ^= ETH_FLAG_TXVLAN;
>> +		else if ((data & ETH_FLAG_TXVLAN) !=
>> +		    (netdev->features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX))
>> +			data ^= ETH_FLAG_RXVLAN;
>> +	}
> [...]
> 
> I think this should reject attempts to change just one flag with
> -EINVAL, rather than quietly 'fixing' the setting.
> 
> Ben.

I'm not sure this is a good idea. At least not without some sort of 
explanation. Since there is no way for the user to know that he needs
to disable both.

Thanks,
Emil