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Date:	Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:12:23 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@...gic.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Dept_NX_Linux_NIC_Driver <Dept_NX_Linux_NIC_Driver@...gic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool 2/3] ethtool: add support for external loopback.

On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 03:31 -0700, Sucheta Chakraborty wrote:
> External loopback will be performed in addition to other offline tests.
> User need to pass new parameter "external_lb" for the same.
> 
> Reqd. man page changes included.

Applied, but:

[...]
> @@ -1689,6 +1692,9 @@ static int dump_test(struct ethtool_drvinfo *info, struct ethtool_test *test,
>  
>  	rc = test->flags & ETH_TEST_FL_FAILED;
>  	fprintf(stdout, "The test result is %s\n", rc ? "FAIL" : "PASS");
> +	fprintf(stdout, "External loopback test is %s\n",
> +		test->flags & ETH_TEST_FL_EXTERNAL_LB_DONE ? "executed" :
> +							"not executed");
>  
>  	if (info->testinfo_len)
>  		fprintf(stdout, "The test extra info:\n");

1. This message should say 'was', not 'is'.

2. There are undoubtedly scripts that parse the output of ethtool -t.
We might break them if we add a line to the output of existing commands.
I've made this conditional on test_type == EXTERNAL_LB.

Ben.

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