Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 14/17] ethtool: set link settings with LINKINFO_SET request

From: Michal Kubecek <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:48:09 +0200

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 06:33:09PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 10:59:43PM CEST, [email-masked] wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >+static const struct nla_policy linkinfo_hdr_policy[ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_MAX + 1] = {
> >+	[ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_UNSPEC]		= { .type = NLA_REJECT },
> >+	[ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_DEV_INDEX]		= { .type = NLA_U32 },
> >+	[ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_DEV_NAME]		= { .type = NLA_NUL_STRING,
> >+						    .len = IFNAMSIZ - 1 },
> 
> Please make ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_DEV_NAME accept alternative names as well.
> Just s/IFNAMSIZ/ALTIFNAMSIZ should be enough.

Yes, definitely. I focused on (finally) submitting v7 so I didn't left
testing how it plays with altnames for later.

Michal 

> >+	[ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_GFLAGS]		= { .type = NLA_U32 },
> >+	[ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_RFLAGS]		= { .type = NLA_REJECT },
> >+};
> 
> [...]