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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: provide a default dev->ethtool_ops
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:41:17 -0400 (EDT)
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=46rom: 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
>=20
> Instead of forcing device drivers to provide empty ethtool_ops or twe=
ak
> net/core/ethtool.c again, we could provide a generic ethtool_ops.
>=20
> This occurred to me when I wanted to add GSO support to GRE tunnels.
> ethtool -k support should be generic for all drivers.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
> Cc: Maciej =AFenczykowski <maze@google.com>

Great work, applied, thanks Eric.