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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik•org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	gospo@redhat•com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel•com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] ethtool: Add n-tuple string length to drvinfo and return it
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:05:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B87C70F.8060403@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100226.042027.250812962.davem@davemloft.net>

On 02/26/2010 07:20 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Kirsher<jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel•com>
> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:54:20 -0800
>
>> From: Peter Waskiewicz<peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel•com>
>>
>> The drvinfo struct should include the number of strings that
>> get_rx_ntuple will return.  It will be variable if an underlying
>> driver implements its own get_rx_ntuple routine, so userspace
>> needs to know how much data is coming.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr<peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel•com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher<jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel•com>
>
> Applied.

NAK.  Did you even read the patch?

We don't increase the size of struct ethtool_drvinfo, _especially_ by 
sticking struct members into the middle of the struct.

What do you think 'reserved' is for???

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-26 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-26 11:54 [net-next-2.6 PATCH] ethtool: Add n-tuple string length to drvinfo and return it Jeff Kirsher
2010-02-26 12:20 ` David Miller
2010-02-26 13:05   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2010-02-26 13:11     ` David Miller
2010-02-26 20:08       ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2010-02-26 13:44 ` [PATCH] " Jeff Garzik
2010-02-26 13:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2010-02-26 13:59   ` Jeff Garzik
2010-02-26 23:49   ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2010-02-27  6:31     ` Jeff Garzik
2010-02-27  7:25       ` Jeff Garzik
2010-02-27 20:28       ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P

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