Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: stmmac: ethtool: Address off-by-one when reading the coal rx-usecs
From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Sun Aug 02 2026 - 19:16:44 EST
On Sun, Aug 02, 2026 at 10:29:22PM +0200, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On 8/2/26 17:05, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >> This does change the boundaries of accepted rx-usecs parameters, as the
> >> previously accepted values were in the 16-246 us range, and now fall
> >> into the 15-245 range on imx8mp.
> >
> > With this change in place, what happens when trying to set 246?
> > EINVAL?
>
> Yes indeed :
>
> # ethtool -C eth1 rx-usecs 246
> netlink error: Invalid argument
I guess nobody will report a regression, but if they do, we can map
246 to 245. But until somebody does report it:
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
Andrew