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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 08:27:37 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>
Cc: Ahmed Zaki <ahmed.zaki@...el.com>, 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 Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:33:04 +0200 Gal Pressman wrote:
> 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.

Ah, good point! That, too.

I was referring to what changed in v5, from the change long:

  v5: move sanity checks from ethtool/ioctl.c to ice's and iavf's rxfnc
      drivers entries (patches 5 and 6).