netdev - Re: TUN/TAP: tap driver reports bogus interface speed in ethtool operations

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:51:17 +0200
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Helmut Grohne <h.grohne@...nusnetworks.de>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Max Krasnyansky" <maxk@....qualcomm.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: TUN/TAP: tap driver reports bogus interface speed in ethtool
 operations

On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 08:20 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Thanks for your review! Given the v2 patch Stephen Hemminger posted, I
> think that his series is where development should continue.
> 
> On 23.07.2013, at 21:04, Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:
> > This is formatted wrongly - needs a space after 'if' and all the
> > continuation lines should be lined up under 'cmd->supported'.
> 
> I am sorry for not having run checkpatch and will try to remember next time.
> 
> >> +               return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > 
> > EINVAL
> 
> Makes sense, once you are pointed to it.
> 
> > I notice the port type is reported as PORT_TP.  Perhaps that should also
> > be changed to PORT_NONE (in a separate patch)?
> 
> This appears not yet addressed in the v2 patch yet.
> 
> I am not sure how to go on here. Clearly the v2 patch set, is an improvement
> over my initial version. The additional capabilities of changing the reported
> driver and similar aspects appear controversial though. Would it make sense
> to split this into two patch sets to be handled independently?

Yes, I think that would make sense.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html