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From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>, Tal Alon <talal@mellanox.com>,
	Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 9/9] net/mlx5e: Reset link modes upon setting speed to zero
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:01:18 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALzJLG9ZbuwmGvuU5t68fYuErCUXU4c7_cf3n7O397EM06sWJg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160421.140454.143155848960923980.davem@davemloft.net>

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:04 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:33:42 +0300
>
>> Upon ethtool request to set speed to 0 we handle it as a special request
>> to reset link modes to Device's defaults.
>>
>> Fixes: f62b8bb8f2d3 ("net/mlx5: Extend mlx5_core to support ConnectX-4
>> Ethernet functionality")
>> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
>
> Please don't try to sneak things like this into the patches you submit.
>

No one is trying to sneak things here, This patch is transparent
enough and well documented, it is not fair to call it "sneaking" !

I am glad this is what you think about the patch, but i am a little
bit stunned of what you think about me .

> If you continue to add weird stuff like this, I will never _ever_ be
> able to trust you guys and have a high degree of confidence in your
> changes.  If you continue like this, I will always have to audit your
> patches very strictly which is very time consuming for me.
>

Well i wanted to argue on why i think it is ok to treat speed=0 as
special reset request, but I also kinda  agree with you on this, I
won't waste more of your time on this.

I hope I won't disappoint you in the future, after all we learn from the best.

> Do not extend ethtool's semantics in a way which suits you specifically.
>
> If we want to have this semantic, you must first propose it as a
> global semantic which then in turn can be adopted by all drivers
> supporting ethtool.
>

Sure thing, will drop this patch now, and will improve it later.

Thank you.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-21 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-19 12:33 [PATCH net 0/9] mlx5 driver updates and fixes Saeed Mahameed
2016-04-19 12:33 ` [PATCH net 1/9] net/mlx5_core: Fix soft lockup in steering error flow Saeed Mahameed
2016-04-19 12:33 ` [PATCH net 2/9] net/mlx5e: Fix MLX5E_100BASE_T define Saeed Mahameed
2016-04-19 12:33 ` [PATCH net 3/9] net/mlx5_core: Add ConnectX-5 to list of supported devices Saeed Mahameed
2016-04-19 12:33 ` [PATCH net 4/9] net/mlx5e: Device's mtu field is u16 and not int Saeed Mahameed
2016-04-19 12:33 ` [PATCH net 5/9] net/mlx5e: Fix minimum MTU Saeed Mahameed
2016-04-19 12:33 ` [PATCH net 6/9] net/mlx5e: Use vport MTU rather than physical port MTU Saeed Mahameed
2016-04-19 12:33 ` [PATCH net 7/9] net/mlx5_core: Remove static from local variable Saeed Mahameed
2016-04-19 12:33 ` [PATCH net 8/9] net/mlx5: Add pci shutdown callback Saeed Mahameed
2016-04-19 12:33 ` [PATCH net 9/9] net/mlx5e: Reset link modes upon setting speed to zero Saeed Mahameed
2016-04-21 18:04   ` David Miller
2016-04-21 18:07     ` David Miller
2016-04-21 19:01     ` Saeed Mahameed [this message]

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