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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: parav.pandit@emulex.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: added support for 40GbE link.
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:29:05 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120619.002905.922583388766089167.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1340039376.2913.13.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:09:36 +0100

> On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 18:14 +0530, Parav Pandit wrote:
...
>> -/* The forced speed, 10Mb, 100Mb, gigabit, 2.5Gb, 10GbE. */
>> +/* The forced speed, 10Mb, 100Mb, gigabit, 2.5Gb, 10GbE, 40GbE. */
> 
> I don't think there's any need to name all possible link speeds, and it
> just encourages the bad practice of ethtool API users checking for
> specific values.  You may notice there is no SPEED_20000.

Agreed.

>> @@ -542,13 +542,11 @@ static int prb_calc_retire_blk_tmo(struct packet_sock *po,
 ...
> This function should be fixed properly.  Firstly, it must use
> ethtool_cmd_speed() rather than directly accessing ecmd.speed.
> Secondly, it should allow any speed value rather than checking for
> specific values.  Then there will be no need to make further changes for
> 100G or any other new speed.

Agreed.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-19  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-18 12:44 [PATCH] net: added support for 40GbE link Parav Pandit
2012-06-18 16:27 ` Rick Jones
2012-06-18 16:56   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-06-19  5:20   ` Parav.Pandit
2012-06-18 17:09 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-06-19  7:29   ` David Miller [this message]
2012-06-19  7:33     ` Parav.Pandit
2012-06-19  7:35       ` David Miller
2012-06-19  7:42         ` Parav.Pandit
2012-06-19 14:11           ` Ben Hutchings
2012-06-27  9:08             ` Parav.Pandit

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