netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] ethtool: Define and apply a default policy for RX flow hash indirection

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Date:	Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:54:02 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com, mcarlson@...adcom.com,
	eilong@...adcom.com, dm@...lsio.com, sbhatewara@...are.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, pv-drivers@...are.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] ethtool: Define and apply a default
 policy for RX flow hash indirection

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:56:49 +0000

> All drivers that support modification of the RX flow hash indirection
> table initialise it in the same way: RX rings are assigned to table
> entries in rotation.  Make that default policy explicit by having them
> call a ethtool_rxfh_indir_default() function.
> 
> In the ethtool core, add support for a zero size value for
> ETHTOOL_SRXFHINDIR, which resets the table to this default.
> 
> Partly-suggested-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Applied.

> + * @size: On entry, the array size of the user buffer, which may be zero.
> + *	On return from %ETHTOOL_GRXFHINDIR, the array size of the hardware
> + *	indirection table. 
                          ^^^

Trailing whitespace I had to fixup while applying this, just FYI.
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