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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik•org>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare•com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat•com>,
	Amit Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic•com>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat•com>,
	Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic•com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] ethtool: Change ethtool_op_set_flags to validate flags
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:26:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C2AD59E.10008@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1277827261.2112.48.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com>

On 06/29/2010 12:01 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> This is the sort of change I'd like to see.
>
> Ben.
>
> ---
> ethtool_op_set_flags() does not check for unsupported flags, and has
> no way of doing so.  This means it is not suitable for use as a
> default implementation of ethtool_ops::set_flags.
>
> Add a 'supported' parameter specifying the flags that the driver and
> hardware support, validate the requested flags against this, and
> change all current callers to pass this parameter.
>
> Change some other trivial implementations of ethtool_ops::set_flags to
> call ethtool_op_set_flags().
> ---
>   drivers/net/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c    |    9 +--------
>   drivers/net/enic/enic_main.c      |    1 -
>   drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c |    5 ++++-
>   drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c         |    7 ++++++-
>   drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c   |   10 +++++++---
>   drivers/net/niu.c                 |    9 +--------
>   drivers/net/sfc/ethtool.c         |    5 +----
>   drivers/net/sky2.c                |   16 ++++++----------
>   include/linux/ethtool.h           |    2 +-
>   net/core/ethtool.c                |   28 +++++-----------------------
>   10 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat•com>

I think that's a better way to do it...



  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-30  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-28  9:31 [PATCH -next] qlcnic: fail when try to setup unsupported features Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-06-28 12:36 ` Amit Salecha
2010-06-28 12:58   ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-06-28 13:09     ` Amit Salecha
2010-06-28 14:14       ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-06-28 14:18         ` Ben Hutchings
2010-06-29 14:41           ` Ben Hutchings
2010-06-29 15:00             ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-06-29 15:05               ` Ben Hutchings
2010-06-29 16:01                 ` [RFC] [PATCH] ethtool: Change ethtool_op_set_flags to validate flags Ben Hutchings
2010-06-30  5:26                   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2010-06-30 11:21                   ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-06-30 20:47                     ` David Miller
2010-06-29 16:59             ` [PATCH -next] qlcnic: fail when try to setup unsupported features David Miller
2010-06-28 13:16     ` Ben Hutchings
2010-06-28 13:30       ` Ben Hutchings
2010-06-28 14:18         ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-06-29  7:55 ` David Miller

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