Re: [PATCH net-next v1 0/7] net: extend ethtool link mode bitmaps to 48 bits
From: Maciej Żenczykowski <hidden>
Date: 2015-01-05 00:34:30
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From: Maciej Żenczykowski <hidden>
Date: 2015-01-05 00:34:30
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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.