Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jan 2015 01:34:26 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next v1 0/7] net: extend ethtool link mode bitmaps to 48 bits | From | Maciej Żenczykowski <> |
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>> I can send updates to other drivers, even though it's rather pointless >> to update 1G drivers at this point for example. Please let me know, >> but I'd prefer to do this in follow-up patches outside this first >> patch series. > [...] > > They should be changed to ensure they reject setting any of the high > advertising flags, but it's not urgent.
if old drivers advertised a get/set_bits function while new drivers advertised a get/set_new_bits function, you could not updated any old drivers, and simply take care of rejecting invalid bits in core, by calling set_new_bits if provided, if not, rejecting bad bits and calling set_bits if no bad bits were set.
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