Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 2/7] net: ethtool: add support for symmetric-xor RSS hash

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 08:27:37 -0800

On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:33:04 +0200 Gal Pressman wrote:
> On 22/11/2023 1:33, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > Last but not least please keep the field check you moved to the drivers
> > in the core. Nobody will remember to check that other drivers added the
> > check as well.  
> 
> The wording of this sentence is a bit confusing, so I might be repeating
> what you already said, but this patchset needs to make sure that drivers
> that do not support the new symmetric flag return an error instead of
> silently ignoring it.

Ah, good point! That, too.

I was referring to what changed in v5, from the change long:

  v5: move sanity checks from ethtool/ioctl.c to ice's and iavf's rxfnc
      drivers entries (patches 5 and 6).