netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: provide a default dev->ethtool

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Message-Id: <20120919.154117.447250069349028510.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:41:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	bhutchings@...arflare.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, maze@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: provide a default dev->ethtool_ops

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:17:26 +0200

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
 ...
> [PATCH v2 net-next] net: provide a default dev->ethtool_ops
> 
> Instead of forcing device drivers to provide empty ethtool_ops or tweak
> net/core/ethtool.c again, we could provide a generic ethtool_ops.
> 
> This occurred to me when I wanted to add GSO support to GRE tunnels.
> ethtool -k support should be generic for all drivers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>

Great work, applied, thanks Eric.
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