From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: Allow no-cache copy from user on transmit Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:38:31 +0000 Message-ID: <1299699511.3006.6.camel@bwh-desktop> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_Miros=C5=82aw?= , davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Tom Herbert Return-path: Received: from exchange.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]:6210 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751272Ab1CITie convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2011 14:38:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 11:18 -0800, Tom Herbert wrote: > > Please don't add new get/set ops for netdev features - G/SFEATURES > > handle them all. > > > > Proper way is to modify NETIF_F_ETHTOOL_BITS, netdev_fix_features() > > and, if needed for now, > > legacy get/set ops (they will go away, eventually). > > >=20 > Don't see this in > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/ethtool/ethtool. Has the patch > been applied? I haven't changed ethtool yet. I put some patches out for discussion and Micha=C5=82 found some problems for them; I haven't had the time to revise them yet. Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.