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Message-ID: <20200513195758.GG650568@tuxdriver.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 15:57:58 -0400
From:   "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@...dex.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool] features: accept long legacy flag names when
 setting features

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:21:20PM +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> The legacy feature flags have long names (e.g. "generic-receive-offload")
> and short names (e.g. "gro"). While "ethtool -k" shows only long names,
> "ethtool -K" accepts only short names. This is a bit confusing as users
> have to resort to documentation to see what flag name to use; in
> particular, if a legacy flag corresponds to only one actual kernel feature,
> "ethtool -k" shows the output in the same form as if long flag name were
> a kernel feature name but this name cannot be used to set the flag/feature.
> 
> Accept both short and long legacy flag names in "ethool -K".
> 
> Reported-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@...dex.ru>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>

Thanks (belatedly) -- queued for next release!

John
-- 
John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@...driver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.

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