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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com, rick.jones2@hp.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make possible speeds known to ethtool
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:00:58 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090108.210058.68468127.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090109041952.GA12087@gondor.apana.org.au>

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:19:53 +1100

> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > For generic net stack flags outside the driver's control, that can 
> > easily be added to ethtool_{get,set}_flags() overriding or ignoring 
> > whatever the driver may have done.
> 
> To use the flags interface as is, you'd have to go through every
> single driver to get them to call ethtool_op_set_flags.  I'm sorry
> but I'm sticking with the current interface.

Right, the flags thing is inappropriate without major reworking for
Herbert's GRO case and therefore his choice was completely
appropriate.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-09  5:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-09  4:19 [PATCH] Make possible speeds known to ethtool Herbert Xu
2009-01-09  5:00 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-01-09  5:05   ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-09  5:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-09  5:15   ` Herbert Xu
2009-01-09  5:30     ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-09  5:35       ` Herbert Xu
2009-01-09  6:28         ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-09  6:30           ` Herbert Xu
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-09  3:48 Herbert Xu
2009-01-09  3:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-08  2:03 Rick Jones
2009-01-08  3:14 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-01-08  3:12   ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-08 19:11     ` Rick Jones
2009-01-08 19:25       ` Ben Hutchings
2009-01-08 19:50         ` Rick Jones
2009-01-09  2:52     ` Herbert Xu
2009-01-09  3:20       ` Jeff Garzik
2009-03-06 11:19       ` Jeff Garzik
2009-03-06 13:52         ` Herbert Xu

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