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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:51:20 -0800 (PST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: bhutchings@...arflare.com Cc: mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] net: Introduce new feature setting ops From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:39:57 +0000 > On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 15:21 +0100, Michaİİ Mirosİİaw 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: Michaİİ Mirosİİaw <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl> > Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> Applied, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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