From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: bhutchings@solarflare.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, maze@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: provide a default dev->ethtool_ops
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:41:17 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120919.154117.447250069349028510.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347823046.26523.44.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:17:26 +0200
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
...
> [PATCH v2 net-next] net: provide a default dev->ethtool_ops
>
> Instead of forcing device drivers to provide empty ethtool_ops or tweak
> net/core/ethtool.c again, we could provide a generic ethtool_ops.
>
> This occurred to me when I wanted to add GSO support to GRE tunnels.
> ethtool -k support should be generic for all drivers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
> Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Great work, applied, thanks Eric.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-19 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-14 7:24 [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: provide a default dev->ethtool_ops Eric Dumazet
2012-09-14 17:10 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2012-09-15 13:40 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-16 19:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-16 22:35 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-19 19:41 ` David Miller [this message]
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