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From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "jeff@garzik.org" <jeff@garzik.org>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"gospo@redhat.com" <gospo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] ethtool: Add n-tuple string length to drvinfo and return it
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:08:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1267214912.2224.1.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100226.051145.01410157.davem@davemloft.net>

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 05:11 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:05:19 -0500
> 
> > NAK.  Did you even read the patch?
> 
> I did, brain doesn't work sometimes :-)
> 
> > We don't increase the size of struct ethtool_drvinfo, _especially_ by
> > sticking struct members into the middle of the struct.
> > 

Brain lapse.  When you mentioned ABI not being locked down until 2.6.34
is dropped, I didn't think.

I'm testing your proposed change, and once I have it working, I'll give
it to Jeff K. to get pushed along with a new userspace patch.

> > What do you think 'reserved' is for???
> 
> Right, I'll revert, thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-26 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-26 11:54 [net-next-2.6 PATCH] ethtool: Add n-tuple string length to drvinfo and return it Jeff Kirsher
2010-02-26 12:20 ` David Miller
2010-02-26 13:05   ` Jeff Garzik
2010-02-26 13:11     ` David Miller
2010-02-26 20:08       ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr [this message]
2010-02-26 13:44 ` [PATCH] " Jeff Garzik
2010-02-26 13:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2010-02-26 13:59   ` Jeff Garzik
2010-02-26 23:49   ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2010-02-27  6:31     ` Jeff Garzik
2010-02-27  7:25       ` Jeff Garzik
2010-02-27 20:28       ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P

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