netdev - Re: [PATCH net 9/9] net/mlx5e: Reset link modes upon setting speed to zero

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Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:04:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	saeedm@...lanox.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ogerlitz@...lanox.com, talal@...lanox.com,
	eranbe@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 9/9] net/mlx5e: Reset link modes upon setting speed
 to zero

From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:33:42 +0300

> Upon ethtool request to set speed to 0 we handle it as a special request
> to reset link modes to Device's defaults.
> 
> Fixes: f62b8bb8f2d3 ("net/mlx5: Extend mlx5_core to support ConnectX-4
> Ethernet functionality")
> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>

Please don't try to sneak things like this into the patches you submit.

If you continue to add weird stuff like this, I will never _ever_ be
able to trust you guys and have a high degree of confidence in your
changes.  If you continue like this, I will always have to audit your
patches very strictly which is very time consuming for me.

Do not extend ethtool's semantics in a way which suits you specifically.

If we want to have this semantic, you must first propose it as a
global semantic which then in turn can be adopted by all drivers
supporting ethtool.

Thank you.