Re: [patch 3/4] Configure out ethtool support

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Thu Jul 31 2008 - 06:40:40 EST


Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
[...]
> --- linuxdev.orig/include/linux/ethtool.h
> +++ linuxdev/include/linux/ethtool.h
> @@ -283,6 +283,7 @@
> struct net_device;
>
> /* Some generic methods drivers may use in their ethtool_ops */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ETHTOOL
> u32 ethtool_op_get_link(struct net_device *dev);
> u32 ethtool_op_get_tx_csum(struct net_device *dev);
> int ethtool_op_set_tx_csum(struct net_device *dev, u32 data);
> @@ -296,6 +297,21 @@
> int ethtool_op_set_ufo(struct net_device *dev, u32 data);
> u32 ethtool_op_get_flags(struct net_device *dev);
> int ethtool_op_set_flags(struct net_device *dev, u32 data);
> +#else
> +static inline u32 ethtool_op_get_link(struct net_device *dev) { return 0; }
> +static inline u32 ethtool_op_get_tx_csum(struct net_device *dev) { return 0; }
> +static inline int ethtool_op_set_tx_csum(struct net_device *dev, u32 data) { return 0; }
> +static inline int ethtool_op_set_tx_hw_csum(struct net_device *dev, u32 data) { return 0; }
> +static inline int ethtool_op_set_tx_ipv6_csum(struct net_device *dev, u32 data) { return 0; }
> +static inline u32 ethtool_op_get_sg(struct net_device *dev) { return 0; }
> +static inline int ethtool_op_set_sg(struct net_device *dev, u32 data) { return 0; }
> +static inline u32 ethtool_op_get_tso(struct net_device *dev) { return 0; }
> +static inline int ethtool_op_set_tso(struct net_device *dev, u32 data) { return 0; }
> +static inline u32 ethtool_op_get_ufo(struct net_device *dev) { return 0; }
> +static inline int ethtool_op_set_ufo(struct net_device *dev, u32 data) { return 0; }
> +static inline u32 ethtool_op_get_flags(struct net_device *dev) { return 0; }
> +static inline int ethtool_op_set_flags(struct net_device *dev, u32 data) { return 0; }

The dummy setter functions should return -EOPNOTSUPP. The getter functions
just read device feature flags and could be made inline. They have no way
of returning failure.

[...]
> ===================================================================
> --- linuxdev.orig/net/core/dev.c
> +++ linuxdev/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -3669,6 +3669,7 @@
> return ret;
>
> case SIOCETHTOOL:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ETHTOOL
> dev_load(net, ifr.ifr_name);
> rtnl_lock();
> ret = dev_ethtool(net, &ifr);
> @@ -3681,6 +3682,9 @@
> ret = -EFAULT;
> }
> return ret;
> +#else
> + return -EINVAL;
> +#endif
>
> /*
> * These ioctl calls:

You also need to conditionalise dev_disable_lro().

Ben.

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