netdev - Re: [PATCH net] be2net: Clear any capability flags that driver is not interested in.

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Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:22:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sarveshwar.bandi@...lex.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] be2net: Clear any capability flags that driver is
 not interested in.

From: <sarveshwar.bandi@...lex.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 11:21:09 +0530

> From: Sarveshwar Bandi <sarveshwar.bandi@...lex.com>
> 
> It is possible for some versions of firmware to advertise capabilities that driver
> is not ready to handle. This may lead to controller stall. Clear all flags that driver
> is not interested in.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sarveshwar Bandi <sarveshwar.bandi@...lex.com>

This is so ugly and hard to understand.

The issue is that the capabilities come from an external entity, in
be_cmd_get_func_config().

So that's the place where you should clear the bits that the drive
doesn't understand.

Also, put the new macro into a sane place like a header file close
to the existing individual BE_IF_FLAGS_* defines.  And name it sanely,
something like "BE_IF_FLAGS_ALL".
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