netdev - Re: Pull request: Fixes for new ethtool RSS commands

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Date:	Mon, 02 Jun 2014 23:07:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, VenkatKumar.Duvvuru@...lex.com
Subject: Re: Pull request: Fixes for new ethtool RSS commands

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 02:49:21 +0100

> This addresses several problems I previously identified with the new
> ETHTOOL_{G,S}RSSH commands:
> 
> 1. Missing validation of reserved parameters
> 2. Vague documentation
> 3. Use of unnamed magic number
> 4. No consolidation with existing driver operations
> 
> I don't currently have access to suitable network hardware, but have
> tested these changes with a dummy driver that can support various
> combinations of operations and sizes, together with (a) Debian's ethtool
> 3.13 (b) ethtool 3.14 with the submitted patch to use ETHTOOL_{G,S}RSSH
> and minor adjustment for fixes 1 and 3.
> 
> v2: Update RSS operations in vmxnet3 too

Pulled, will push out once my build test completes ;-)
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