[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] ethtool: ETHTOOL_SFEATURES: remove NETIF_F_COMPAT return

[Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:25:55AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 18:34 +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 04:45:50PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 17:28 +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> [...]
> > > >      (note: ETHTOOL_S{SG,...} are not ever going away)
> > > >    - causes NETIF_F_* to be an ABI
> > > If feature flag numbers are not stable then what is the point of
> > > /sys/class/net/<name>/features?  Also, I'm not aware that features have
> > > ever been renumbered in the past.
> > Since no NETIF_F_* were exported earlier, I assume /sys/class/net/*/features
> > is a debugging aid. What is it used for besides that?
> xen-api <https://github.com/xen-org/xen-api> uses it in
> scripts/InterfaceReconfigureVswitch.py.  Though it doesn't seem to be
> used for a particularly good reason...

Look like it should use ETHTOOL_GFLAGS instead for netdev_has_vlan_accel().

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław

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