netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] net: Introduce new feature setting ops

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Message-ID: <1297107597.4077.8.camel@bwh-desktop>
Date:	Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:39:57 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] net: Introduce new feature setting ops

On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 15:21 +0100, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> This introduces a new framework to handle device features setting.
> It consists of:
>   - new fields in struct net_device:
> 	+ hw_features - features that hw/driver supports toggling
> 	+ wanted_features - features that user wants enabled, when possible
>   - new netdev_ops:
> 	+ feat = ndo_fix_features(dev, feat) - API checking constraints for
> 		enabling features or their combinations
> 	+ ndo_set_features(dev) - API updating hardware state to match
> 		changed dev->features
>   - new ethtool commands:
> 	+ ETHTOOL_GFEATURES/ETHTOOL_SFEATURES: get/set dev->wanted_features
> 		and trigger device reconfiguration if resulting dev->features
> 		changed
> 	+ ETHTOOL_GSTRINGS(ETH_SS_FEATURES): get feature bits names (meaning)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

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