On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 13:02 +0000, Venkata Duvvuru wrote:
> This ethtool patch will primarily implement the parser for the options provided by the user for set and get hashkey before invoking the ioctl.
> This patch also has Ethtool man page changes which describes the Usage of set and get hashkey options.

I'd prefer to have this combined with the -x/-X options (and add new
long options to reflect that they cover the key as well).

[...]
> diff --git a/ethtool.c b/ethtool.c
> index b06dfa3..4b05b0c 100644
> --- a/ethtool.c
> +++ b/ethtool.c
> @@ -471,6 +471,59 @@ static int rxflow_str_to_type(const char *str)
>  	return flow_type;
>  }
>  
> +static inline int is_hkey_char_valid(const char rss_hkey_string) {

A char is not a string.

> +	/* Are there any invalid characters in the string */
> +	return ((rss_hkey_string >= '0' && rss_hkey_string <= '9') ||
> +	       (rss_hkey_string >= 'a' && rss_hkey_string <= 'f') ||
> +	       (rss_hkey_string >= 'A' && rss_hkey_string <= 'F')); }

Braces are in the wrong places.  And the whole function is redundant
with isxdigit() anyway.

> +static int convert_string_to_hashkey(struct ethtool_rss_hkey *rss_hkey,
> +				      const char *rss_hkey_string)
> +{
> +	int i = 0;
> +	int hex_byte;
> +
> +	do {
> +		if (i > (RSS_HASH_KEY_LEN - 1)) {

Comparing with the wrong limit.

[...]
> +static int get_hashkey(struct cmd_context *ctx) {

Brace in the wrong place.

[...]
> +	for (i = 0; i < RSS_HASH_KEY_LEN; i++) {
> +		if (i == (RSS_HASH_KEY_LEN - 1))

Wrong length.

> +			printf("%02x\n", rss_hkey->data[i]);
> +		else
> +			printf("%02x:", rss_hkey->data[i]);
> +	}
> +
> +done:
> +	free(rss_hkey);
> +	return rc;
> +}
[...]

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