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Message-ID: <4DB86178.5090605@intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:33:28 -0700
From:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
CC:	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ethtool PATCH 4/6] Add support for __be64 and bitops to ethtool

On 4/27/2011 10:09 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 09:46 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> On 4/27/2011 8:54 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 13:40 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>>>> This change is meant to add support for __be64 values and bitops to
>>>> ethtool.  These changes will be needed in order to support network flow
>>>> classifier rule configuration.
> [...]
>>> Where is __always_inline supposed to be defined?
>>
>> Sorry that should have just been inline.  I forgot we have to take tools
>> other than gcc into account.
>
> Oh, it's a gcc extension?  I read the code before trying to compile it.
> I've never tested with anything other than gcc but I think it's worth
> making a small effort to avoid gcc extensions.
>
> [...]
>> On a side note, is there a git tree somewhere I can re-base off of?  At
>> this point I know you have pulled in a number of patches and I figure it
>> would be helpful for me to clean up my tree so I am not guessing what is
>> there and what isn't.
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/ethtool/ethtool.git
>
> Ben.
>

I just saw the updates pushed to the tree.  Thanks.  I'll start working 
on incorporating the suggestions you made and should have an updated 
version of the remaining patches ready in the next day or so.

Thanks,

Alex
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