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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: ETHTOOL_SFEATURES: remove NETIF_F_COMPAT
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Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:37:46 +0100
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On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 15:28 +0200, Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw wrote:
> Remove NETIF_F_COMPAT since it's redundant and will be unused after
> all drivers are converted to fix/set_features.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
> ---
>=20
> For net as we don't want to have ETHTOOL_F_COMPAT hit stable release.
[...]

ETHTOOL_F_WISH means that the requested features could not all be
enabled, *but are remembered*.  ETHTOOL_F_COMPAT means they were not
remembered.

Ben.

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