From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Laurent Chavey <chavey@google.com>,
Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: Allow ethtool to set interface in loopback mode.
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 01:59:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1294192750.2992.29.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D23CAA5.7060902@hp.com>
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 17:34 -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
> >>>Since this is a boolean it SHOULD go into ethtool_flags rather than
> >>>being a high level operation.
> >>
> >>It could do, but I though ETHTOOL_{G,S}FLAGS were intended for
> >>controlling offload features.
> >
> >
> > It just seems the number of hooks keeps growing which takes more space
> > and increases complexity.
>
> Is there any complication/downside to using flags in the (un?)likely event of
> wanting different flavors of loopback in the card?
You have to define the flags. And once you start, where would you
stop? The sfc driver alone recognises 18 host-side and 8 wire-side
loopback modes.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-05 1:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-30 8:00 [PATCH] Net-ethtool : Allow ethtool to set interface in loopback mode Mahesh Bandewar
2010-11-30 9:48 ` Simon Horman
2010-11-30 15:01 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-30 19:05 ` Mahesh Bandewar
2010-11-30 19:15 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-30 21:22 ` Mahesh Bandewar
2010-11-30 23:57 ` [PATCH v2] " Mahesh Bandewar
2010-12-01 14:54 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-12-01 20:14 ` [PATCH v3] " Mahesh Bandewar
2010-12-01 20:17 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-12-10 4:11 ` David Miller
2011-01-05 0:30 ` [PATCH v2] net: " Mahesh Bandewar
2011-01-05 0:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-05 1:21 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-01-05 1:29 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-05 1:34 ` Rick Jones
2011-01-05 1:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-05 1:59 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2011-01-05 2:06 ` Mahesh Bandewar
2011-01-05 1:39 ` Mahesh Bandewar
2011-01-05 16:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-01-06 22:13 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-01-07 0:47 ` Mahesh Bandewar
2011-01-07 1:30 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-01-12 19:24 ` Mahesh Bandewar
2011-01-22 0:23 ` [PATCH v4] net-next-2.6: " Mahesh Bandewar
2011-01-23 2:35 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-01-23 17:12 ` Mahesh Bandewar
2011-01-23 17:32 ` Michał Mirosław
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