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Message-ID: <20191220101831.GF24174@lunn.ch>
Date:   Fri, 20 Dec 2019 11:18:31 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Cris Forno <cforno12@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, mst@...hat.com, jasowang@...hat.com,
        haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com, sashal@...nel.org,
        tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH, net-next, v3, 1/2] ethtool: Factored out similar ethtool
 link settings for virtual devices to core

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 02:54:09PM -0600, Cris Forno wrote:
> @@ -579,6 +579,32 @@ static int load_link_ksettings_from_user(struct ethtool_link_ksettings *to,
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +/* Check if the user is trying to change anything besides speed/duplex */
> +static bool
> +ethtool_virtdev_validate_cmd(const struct ethtool_link_ksettings *cmd)
> +{
> +	struct ethtool_link_ksettings diff1 = *cmd;
> +	struct ethtool_link_ksettings diff2 = {};

Hi Cris

These are not the best of names. How about request and valid?

> +
> +	/* cmd is always set so we need to clear it, validate the port type
> +	 * and also without autonegotiation we can ignore advertising
> +	 */
> +	diff1.base.speed = 0;
> +	diff2.base.port = PORT_OTHER;
> +	ethtool_link_ksettings_zero_link_mode(&diff1, advertising);
> +	diff1.base.duplex = 0;
> +	diff1.base.cmd = 0;
> +	diff1.base.link_mode_masks_nwords = 0;
> +
> +	return !memcmp(&diff1.base, &diff2.base, sizeof(diff1.base)) &&

linkmode_equal()

> +		bitmap_empty(diff1.link_modes.supported,
> +			     __ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_MASK_NBITS) &&

linkmode_empty()

	Andrew