[PATCH 3/6] ibmveth: Add ethtool TSO handlers
Jeff Garzik
jeff at garzik.org
Fri Aug 31 23:14:36 EST 2007
Brian King wrote:
> Add handlers for get_tso and get_ufo to prevent errors being printed
> by ethtool.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>
> linux-2.6-bjking1/drivers/net/ibmveth.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff -puN drivers/net/ibmveth.c~ibmveth_ethtool_get_tso drivers/net/ibmveth.c
> --- linux-2.6/drivers/net/ibmveth.c~ibmveth_ethtool_get_tso 2007-08-08 10:46:28.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6-bjking1/drivers/net/ibmveth.c 2007-08-08 10:46:28.000000000 -0500
> @@ -767,6 +767,8 @@ static const struct ethtool_ops netdev_e
> .set_tx_csum = ibmveth_set_tx_csum,
> .get_rx_csum = ibmveth_get_rx_csum,
> .set_rx_csum = ibmveth_set_rx_csum,
> + .get_tso = ethtool_op_get_tso,
> + .get_ufo = ethtool_op_get_ufo,
This patch is fine, but I wonder if we shouldn't add some code to
net/core/ethtool.c along the lines of...
if (!netdev->ethtool_ops->get_tso)
ethtool_op_get_tso(args);
else
netdev->ethtool_ops->get_tso(args);
Because this certainly seems like desirable behavior across all devices.
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