From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eli@dev.mellanox.co.il
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: invalid requirement from ethtool?
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:37:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110728.003758.292509567308751079.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110728072326.GC6750@mtldesk30>
From: Eli Cohen <eli@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:23:26 +0300
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:43:09PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Eli Cohen <eli@dev.mellanox.co.il>
>> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:42:22 +0300
>>
>> > I think both params zero should be allowed and mean coalescing is not
>> > operational, thus we can remove these comments from ethtool.h
>>
>> The existing precendence has existed for more than 10 years. You can't
>> just change it like this.
>>
>> You'll need to find a new way to encode "disabled" coalescing.
>
> I can't see the text explicitly specifies how to "disable" coalescing.
> If I ignore the specific comment that disallows both params 0, I could
> interpret the text such that when they're both zero, the feature is
> disabled.
The documentation does not determine what the rules are, the cpu
does not execute the documentation it executes the code, and that's
what determines the rules.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-28 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-26 12:42 invalid requirement from ethtool? Eli Cohen
2011-07-28 5:43 ` David Miller
2011-07-28 7:23 ` Eli Cohen
2011-07-28 7:37 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-07-28 10:22 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-07-28 14:55 ` Eli Cohen
2011-08-15 17:24 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-08-15 20:49 ` David Miller
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