Re: [PATCH iwl-next 6/9] igc: Add support for frame preemption verification

From: Furong Xu
Date: Tue Dec 17 2024 - 07:10:29 EST


On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:22:54 +0200, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Anyway, while browsing through this software implementation of a
> verification process, I cannot help but think we'd be making a huge
> mistake to allow each driver to reimplement it on its own. We just
> recently got stmmac to do something fairly clean, with the help and
> great perseverence of Furong Xu (now copied).
>
> I spent a bit of time extracting stmmac's core logic and putting it in
> ethtool. If Furong had such good will so as to regression-test the
> attached patch, do you think you could use this as a starting place
> instead, and implement some ops and call some library methods, instead
> of writing the entire logic yourself?
>

I am quiet busy these days, especially near the end of the year :)

Maybe I can help testing the attached patch when the next time net-next opens.

Thanks.