netdev - [PATCH ethtool] ethtool.8: Remove "default" note about rxfh xfrm

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Message-ID: <20250626005144.79972-1-bpoirier@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:51:44 +0900
From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...dia.com>
To: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH ethtool] ethtool.8: Remove "default" note about rxfh xfrm

Since linux.git commit 4d20c9f2db83 ("net/mlx5e: Symmetric OR-XOR RSS hash
control"), the default rxfh xfrm used by mlx5 devices is
'symmetric-or-xor'. Since the default xfrm is driver-dependent and
ethtool.8 does not document the default values implemented by drivers,
remove the comment from ethtool.8 which says that the default xfrm is
'none'.

Cc: Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...dia.com>
---
 ethtool.8.in | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ethtool.8.in b/ethtool.8.in
index fd6ce20..29b8a8c 100644
--- a/ethtool.8.in
+++ b/ethtool.8.in
@@ -1322,7 +1322,7 @@ and destination fields (as selected by
 then yield the same hash for the other flow direction where the source and
 destination fields are swapped (i.e. Symmetric RSS). Note that this operation
 reduces the entropy of the input set and the hash algorithm could potentially
-be exploited. Switch off (default) by
+be exploited. Switch off by
 .B xfrm none.
 .TP
 .BI start\  N
-- 
2.49.0