Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] ethtool: minor doc update

[Ben Hutchings]

On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 17:03 -0700, David Decotigny wrote:
> From: David Decotigny <decot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Updates: commit 793cf87de9d1 ("ethtool: Set cmd field in
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS response to wrong nwords")
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <decot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Âinclude/uapi/linux/ethtool.h | 6 +++---
> Â1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> index 2835b07..9222db8 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> @@ -1648,9 +1648,9 @@ enum ethtool_reset_flags {
> Â *	%ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS: on entry, number of words passed by user
> Â *	(>= 0); on return, if handshake in progress, negative if
> Â *	request size unsupported by kernel: absolute value indicates
> - *	kernel recommended size and cmd field is 0, as well as all the
> - *	other fields; otherwise (handshake completed), strictly
> - *	positive to indicate size used by kernel and cmd field is
> + *	kernel expected size and all the other fields but cmd
> + *	are 0; otherwise (handshake completed), strictly positive
> + *	to indicate size used by kernel and cmd field stays
> Â *	%ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS, all other fields populated by driver. For
> Â *	%ETHTOOL_SLINKSETTINGS: must be valid on entry, ie. a positive
> Â *	value returned previously by %ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS, otherwise
-- 
Ben Hutchings
Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer

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