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Message-ID: <96d16597-12a7-4574-9c22-98a1b70bc21a@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:33:04 +0200
From: Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Ahmed Zaki <ahmed.zaki@...el.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, corbet@....net,
 jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com, davem@...emloft.net,
 edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com, vladimir.oltean@....com,
 andrew@...n.ch, horms@...nel.org, mkubecek@...e.cz,
 willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com, alexander.duyck@...il.com,
 linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 2/7] net: ethtool: add support for
 symmetric-xor RSS hash

On 22/11/2023 1:33, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Last but not least please keep the field check you moved to the drivers
> in the core. Nobody will remember to check that other drivers added the
> check as well.

The wording of this sentence is a bit confusing, so I might be repeating
what you already said, but this patchset needs to make sure that drivers
that do not support the new symmetric flag return an error instead of
silently ignoring it.

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