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Message-ID: <1305553066.19966.32.camel@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 16 May 2011 14:37:46 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: ETHTOOL_SFEATURES: remove NETIF_F_COMPAT
 return

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 15:28 +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> Remove NETIF_F_COMPAT since it's redundant and will be unused after
> all drivers are converted to fix/set_features.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
> ---
> 
> For net as we don't want to have ETHTOOL_F_COMPAT hit stable release.
[...]

ETHTOOL_F_WISH means that the requested features could not all be
enabled, *but are remembered*.  ETHTOOL_F_COMPAT means they were not
remembered.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare
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They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

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