Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCHv3 2/7] ethtool: Call ethtool's get/set_settings callbacks with cleaned data

[Ben H. <bhu...@so...>]

On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 18:27 -0700, David Decotigny wrote:
> This makes sure that when a driver calls the ethtool's
> get/set_settings() callback of another driver, the data passed to it
> is clean. This guarantees that speed_hi will be zeroed correctly if
> the called callback doesn't explicitely set it: we are sure we don't
> get a corrupted speed from the underlying driver. We also take care of
> setting the cmd field appropriately (ETHTOOL_GSET/SSET).
> 
> This applies to dev_ethtool_get_settings(), which now makes sure it
> sets up that ethtool command parameter correctly before passing it to
> drivers. This also means that whoever calls dev_ethtool_get_settings()
> does not have to clean the ethtool command parameter. This function
> also becomes an exported symbol instead of an inline.
> 
> All drivers visible to make allyesconfig under x86_64 have been
> updated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <de...@go...>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhu...@so...>

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