Re: [PATCH net v2 0/2] selftests: drv-net: ring_reconfig: handle devices without channel config
From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Nov 10 2026 - 20:22:46 EST
On Tue, 10 Nov 2026 19:14:21 +0300 Bilal Yazıcıoğlu wrote:
> ring_reconfig.py assumes that a device which supports ring parameters
> also supports changing its channels. Drivers without a get_channels op,
> such as e1000e, return -EOPNOTSUPP for the channel query, and drivers
> with get_channels but no set_channels, such as vmxnet3 and r8169,
> return it for every channel change. The resulting NlError makes the
> tests fail instead of skipping them.
The test is fine, please don't waste our time.