netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] ethtool: Add support for DMA buffer settings

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.03.1408010331120.458@ws.cisco>
Date:	Fri, 1 Aug 2014 03:33:26 +0530 (IST)
From:	Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@....com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	_govind@....com, ben@...adent.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ssujith@...co.com, benve@...co.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] ethtool: Add support for DMA buffer
 settings

On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, David Miller wrote:
> However I wonder what value that "max" thing has, I think setting the
> value to infinity is just fine, it just means every packet will be
> copied.
>
> So if we remove the 'max', we just have the copybreak itself, and you
> can therefore use ethtool_value and allocate the ethtool command
> numbers.

Yes, we can drop the max thing.

I will use ethtool_value and allocate new ethtool command for rx_copybreak
and send the patch soon.

Thanks
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