From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethtool: Return -EOPNOTSUPP if user space tries to read EEPROM with lengh 0 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:13:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20141031.161306.1209095823862991107.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1414727415-5470-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <20141031035635.GC4082@lunn.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux@roeck-us.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: andrew@lunn.ch Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20141031035635.GC4082@lunn.ch> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Andrew Lunn Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 04:56:35 +0100 > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 08:50:15PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> If a driver supports reading EEPROM but no EEPROM is installed in the system, >> the driver's get_eeprom_len function returns 0. ethtool will subsequently >> try to read that zero-length EEPROM anyway. If the driver does not support >> EEPROM access at all, this operation will return -EOPNOTSUPP. If the driver >> does support EEPROM access but no EEPROM is installed, the operation will >> return -EINVAL. Return -EOPNOTSUPP in both cases for consistency. >> >> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck > > root@dir665:~# ethtool -e lan4 > Cannot get EEPROM data: Operation not supported > > Tested-by: Andrew Lunn Applied, thanks everyone.