netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] net: Introduce new feature setting ops

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:05:13 +0100
From:	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] net: Introduce new feature setting ops

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:30:02PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 14:54 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Le lundi 07 février 2011 à 19:39 +0000, Ben Hutchings a écrit :
> > > On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 15:21 +0100, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> > > > This introduces a new framework to handle device features setting.
> > > > It consists of:
> > > >   - new fields in struct net_device:
> > > > 	+ hw_features - features that hw/driver supports toggling
> > > > 	+ wanted_features - features that user wants enabled, when possible
> > > >   - new netdev_ops:
> > > > 	+ feat = ndo_fix_features(dev, feat) - API checking constraints for
> > > > 		enabling features or their combinations
> > > > 	+ ndo_set_features(dev) - API updating hardware state to match
> > > > 		changed dev->features
> > > >   - new ethtool commands:
> > > > 	+ ETHTOOL_GFEATURES/ETHTOOL_SFEATURES: get/set dev->wanted_features
> > > > 		and trigger device reconfiguration if resulting dev->features
> > > > 		changed
> > > > 	+ ETHTOOL_GSTRINGS(ETH_SS_FEATURES): get feature bits names (meaning)
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
> > > Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> > Do we have any ethtool patch to use these 'new' features ?
> I have some unfinished changes to support this.  What I don't want to do
> is to add an entirely separate set of options; I want -k/-K to work with
> old and new kernel versions, supporting named features as an extension
> where available.

Ben, what are your patches like?  I mean their state?  I'm asking, because I
found a bit of time and rebased my earlier patch to current ethtool 3.2
this weekend.  Haven't sent them yet, because I'm seeing -EOPNOTSUPP from
kernel on x86_64 for GFEATURES and I'm trying to figure out where's the bug.

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław
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