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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash•net>
To: "Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel•com>
Cc: jeff@garzik•org, davem@davemloft•net, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug•ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] [NET-NEXT]: Add DCB netlink interface definition
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:14:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <484E29C1.2010302@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D5C1322C3E673F459512FB59E0DDC3290538B15D@orsmsx414.amr.corp.intel.com>

Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P wrote:
>>> +struct dcbnl_genl_ops {
>>> +	u8   (*getstate)(struct net_device *);
>>> +	void (*setstate)(struct net_device *, u8);
>>> +	void (*getpermhwaddr)(struct net_device *, u8 *);
>> "getpermhwaddr" doesn't seem to belong in this interface but 
>> in rtnetlink and/or ethtool instead.
> 
> This was a feature in ethtool, but it was removed at some point.  I can
> add it to rtnetlink though if people think it'll be useful to have.

I think thats a better idea than to put it in a private
driver interface.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-10  7:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-27 14:13 [PATCH] NET: DCB generic netlink interface PJ Waskiewicz
2008-05-27 14:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] [NET-NEXT]: Add DCB netlink interface definition PJ Waskiewicz
2008-05-28  9:41   ` Thomas Graf
2008-05-28 16:03     ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-05-28 22:37       ` Thomas Graf
2008-06-01 12:16         ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-06-05 13:17   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-09 22:11     ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-06-10  7:14       ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-05-27 14:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] ixgbe: Add Data Center Bridging hardware initialization code PJ Waskiewicz
2008-05-27 14:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] ixgbe: Enable Data Center Bridging (DCB) support PJ Waskiewicz
2008-06-04 18:44 ` [PATCH] NET: DCB generic netlink interface David Miller
2008-06-05  6:23   ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-06-05 14:43     ` David Miller
2008-06-05 20:29       ` Thomas Graf
2008-06-10 19:55       ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-06-10 20:07         ` David Miller
2008-06-11 17:51         ` Thomas Graf
2008-06-11 17:50           ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 21:28             ` Thomas Graf
2008-06-12 10:17               ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 18:28           ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-06-11 21:26             ` Thomas Graf

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