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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next v1 0/7] net: extend ethtool link mode bitmaps to 48 bits
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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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