netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] ethtool: set_channels: add a few more checks

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Date:   Sat, 16 May 2020 13:56:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     mkubecek@...e.cz, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        simon.horman@...ronome.com, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] ethtool: set_channels: add a few more
 checks

From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 12:48:59 -0700

> There seems to be a few more things we can check in the core before
> we call drivers' ethtool_ops->set_channels. Adding the checks to
> the core simplifies the drivers. This set only includes changes
> to the NFP driver as an example.
> 
> There is a small risk in the first patch that someone actually
> purposefully accepts a strange configuration without RX or TX
> channels, but I couldn't find such a driver in the tree.

Series applied, thanks Jakub.

And for the record I accept logical 'or' of booleans as valid :-)