netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next V2 3/6] net/mlx5e: Read ETS settings directly from firmware

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Date:   Tue, 6 Sep 2016 19:26:08 +0300
From:   Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        Huy Nguyen <huyn@...lanox.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2 3/6] net/mlx5e: Read ETS settings directly
 from firmware

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com> wrote:
> From: Huy Nguyen <huyn@...lanox.com>
>
> Issue description:
> Current implementation saves the ETS settings from user in
> a temporal soft copy and returns this settings when user
> queries the ETS settings.
>
> With the new DCBX firmware, the ETS settings can be changed
> by firmware when the DCBX is in firmware controlled mode. Therefore,
> user will obtain wrong values from the temporal soft copy.

Can this happen also with V2? I thought that when you dropped the
private flag it means that this hybrid mode
isn't exposed now, please clarify.