netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v1 0/7] net: extend ethtool link mode bitmaps to 48 bits

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Message-ID: <1420408540.5686.140.camel@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 04 Jan 2015 21:55:40 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	David Decotigny <ddecotig@...il.com>
Cc:	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, David Decotigny <decot@...glers.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Masatake YAMATO <yamato@...hat.com>, Xi Wang <xii@...gle.com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>, Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
	Venkata Duvvuru <VenkatKumar.Duvvuru@...lex.Com>,
	Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 0/7] net: extend ethtool link mode bitmaps
 to 48 bits

On Sun, 2015-01-04 at 12:56 -0800, David Decotigny wrote:
[...]
> I can send updates to other drivers, even though it's rather pointless
> to update 1G drivers at this point for example. Please let me know,
> but I'd prefer to do this in follow-up patches outside this first
> patch series.
[...]

They should be changed to ensure they reject setting any of the high
advertising flags, but it's not urgent.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

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