netdev - Re: [RFT PATCH 3/9] net: ethtool: break association of ETH_FLAG_* with NETIF_F

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Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:30:57 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFT PATCH 3/9] net: ethtool: break association of ETH_FLAG_*
 with NETIF_F_*

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 13:52 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:51:09 -0700
> 
> > I have no problem with dropping or changing the sysfs feature output.
> > It is useful to have a way to check if device supports something.
> 
> These days that's not even where we store the "capabilities" of the
> device.
> 
> That happens in ->hw_features now.

In fact there never used to be any way for user-space to find out which
capabilities were *supported*, other than to try enabling them.

Once we work out how to deal with kernel-named features in ethtool it
shouldn't be too hard to add options to (quietly) test whether a given
feature is supported or enabled.  Having done that, we could think about
a fallback to sysfs and knowledge of the bit definitions for older
kernel versions.

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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