From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: David Decotigny <decot@google.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl, Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>,
Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>,
Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>,
e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 4/7] ethtool: cosmetic: Use ethtool ethtool_cmd_speed API
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:12:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1303956774.3032.427.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303954043-17440-5-git-send-email-decot@google.com>
On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 18:27 -0700, David Decotigny wrote:
> This updates the network drivers so that they don't access the
> ethtool_cmd::speed field directly, but use ethtoo_cmd_speed() instead.
>
> For most drivers, these changes are purely cosmetic and don't
> fix any problem, such as for those 1GbE/10GbE drivers that indirectly
> call their own ethtool get_settings()/mii_ethtool_gset(). The changes
> are meant to enforce code consistency and provide robustness with
> future larger throughputs, at the expense of a few CPU cycles for each
> ethtool operation.
>
> All the drivers compiled with make allyesconfig ion x86_64 have been
> updated.
>
> Tested: make allyesconfig on x86_64 + e1000e/bnx2x work
> Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <decot@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-28 2:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1303954043-17440-1-git-send-email-decot@google.com>
2011-04-28 1:27 ` [PATCHv3 1/7] ethtool: cosmetics: enforce const-ness in ethtool_cmd_speed David Decotigny
2011-04-28 1:27 ` [PATCHv3 2/7] ethtool: Call ethtool's get/set_settings callbacks with cleaned data David Decotigny
2011-04-28 1:27 ` [PATCHv3 3/7] ethtool: Use the full 32 bit speed range in ethtool's set_settings David Decotigny
2011-04-28 1:27 ` [PATCHv3 4/7] ethtool: cosmetic: Use ethtool ethtool_cmd_speed API David Decotigny
2011-04-28 1:27 ` [PATCHv3 5/7] acenic: Fix using the specified speed when configuring NIC David Decotigny
2011-04-28 1:27 ` [PATCHv3 6/7] tulip/de2104x: don't report different speeds depending on port type David Decotigny
2011-04-28 1:27 ` [PATCHv3 7/7] net/igb/e1000/e1000e: more robust ethtool duplex/speed configuration David Decotigny
[not found] ` <1303954043-17440-2-git-send-email-decot@google.com>
2011-04-28 2:03 ` [PATCHv3 1/7] ethtool: cosmetics: enforce const-ness in ethtool_cmd_speed Ben Hutchings
[not found] ` <1303954043-17440-3-git-send-email-decot@google.com>
2011-04-28 2:04 ` [PATCHv3 2/7] ethtool: Call ethtool's get/set_settings callbacks with cleaned data Ben Hutchings
[not found] ` <1303954043-17440-5-git-send-email-decot@google.com>
2011-04-28 2:12 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
[not found] ` <1303954043-17440-7-git-send-email-decot@google.com>
2011-04-28 2:13 ` [PATCHv3 6/7] tulip/de2104x: don't report different speeds depending on port type Ben Hutchings
[not found] ` <1303954043-17440-4-git-send-email-decot@google.com>
2011-04-28 2:10 ` [PATCHv3 3/7] ethtool: Use the full 32 bit speed range in ethtool's set_settings Ben Hutchings
2011-04-28 21:14 ` David Dillow
2011-04-29 21:12 ` [PATCHv3 0/7] ethtool: generalize use of ethtool_cmd_speed API David Miller
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