netdev - Re: inconsistency of ethtool feature names for get vs. set

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Message-ID: <1388688114.9947.30.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.level5networks.com>
Date:	Thu, 2 Jan 2014 18:41:54 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
CC:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: inconsistency of ethtool feature names for get vs. set

On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 15:03 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 11:47 +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:
[...]
> > $ ethtool -k eth1  | grep generic-receive-offload
> > generic-receive-offload: on
> > 
> > $ ethtool -K eth1  generic-receive-offload off
> > ethtool: bad command line argument(s)
> > For more information run ethtool -h
> > 
> > --> looking in the sources and realizing I need to use "rx-gro"
> 
> Or 'gro'.  All the old feature names that can be used with the -K option
> are listed in the manual page.  All the new feature names are consistent
> between -k/-K.

By 'new feature names' I mean names for features that weren't previously
exposed through ethtool.

[...]
> > Basically, this can be resolved by fairly simple patch, but I wasn't 
> > sure if you want it in user space, in the kernel or both...
> 
> How do you intend to resolve this, given the compatibility requirement
> that the old names must still be reported by -k and accepted by -K?

Just to be clear, I do see that there's a problem here but the fix may
have to be mostly or entirely in documentation rather than code.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
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