From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [RFT PATCH 3/9] net: ethtool: break association of ETH_FLAG_* with NETIF_F_* Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110620.135224.1609394919600206157.davem@davemloft.net> References: <51d2fd4cf6855c2285ca9bcd8d267abedcbc599c.1308596963.git.mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> <1308600681.2701.159.camel@bwh-desktop> <20110620135109.63d81d83@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bhutchings@solarflare.com, mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:34845 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752901Ab1FTUwb (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:52:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110620135109.63d81d83@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:51:09 -0700 > I have no problem with dropping or changing the sysfs feature output. > It is useful to have a way to check if device supports something. These days that's not even where we store the "capabilities" of the device. That happens in ->hw_features now.