netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/6] ethtool: fec: sanitize ethtool

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Message-ID: <YFyAl36ShF8mZbM8@lunn.ch>
Date:   Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:22:47 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/6] ethtool: fec: sanitize
 ethtool_fecparam->reserved

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 06:11:57PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> struct ethtool_fecparam::reserved is never looked at by the core.
> Make sure it's actually 0. Unfortunately we can't return an error
> because old ethtool doesn't zero-initialize the structure for SET.

Hi Jakub

What makes it totally useless for future uses with SET. So the
documentation should probably be something like:

* @reserved: Reserved for future GET extensions.
*
* Older ethtool(1) leave @reserved uninitialised when calling SET or
* GET.  Hence it can only be used to return a value to userspace with
* GET. Currently the value returned is guaranteed to be zero.

The rest looks O.K.

    Andrew