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Message-Id: <20200229.214916.1022439823321659708.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sat, 29 Feb 2020 21:49:16 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     cforno12@...ux.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, mkubecek@...e.cz,
        willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        cforno12@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH, net-next, v7, 0/2] net/ethtool: Introduce
 link_ksettings API for virtual network devices

From: Cris Forno <cforno12@...ux.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:12:03 -0600

> This series provides an API for drivers of virtual network devices that
> allows users to alter initial device speed and duplex settings to reflect
> the actual capabilities of underlying hardware. The changes made include
> a helper function ethtool_virtdev_set_link_ksettings, which is used to
> retrieve alterable link settings. In addition, there is a new ethtool
> function defined to validate those settings. These changes resolve code
> duplication for existing virtual network drivers that have already
> implemented this behavior.  In the case of the ibmveth driver, this API is
> used to provide this capability for the first time.

Applied to net-next.

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