From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755336AbbAFONf (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2015 09:13:35 -0500 Received: from mail-db3on0079.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([157.55.234.79]:19904 "EHLO emea01-db3-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751867AbbAFONd (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2015 09:13:33 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 953 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 09:13:33 EST Message-ID: <54ABE991.3040107@mellanox.com> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 15:56:33 +0200 From: Amir Vadai User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Decotigny , Florian Fainelli , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-api@vger.kernel.org" , Saeed Mahameed CC: David Decotigny , "David S. Miller" , Jason Wang , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Herbert Xu , Al Viro , Ben Hutchings , "Masatake YAMATO" , Xi Wang , Neil Horman , WANG Cong , Flavio Leitner , Tom Gundersen , Jiri Pirko , Vlad Yasevich , "Eric W. Biederman" , Venkata Duvvuru , Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@gmx.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/8] net: extend ethtool link mode bitmaps to 48 bits References: <1420512850-24699-1-git-send-email-ddecotig@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1420512850-24699-1-git-send-email-ddecotig@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: [10.8.17.220] X-EOPAttributedMessage: 0 Authentication-Results: spf=none (sender IP is 193.47.165.134) smtp.mailfrom=amirv@mellanox.com; X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:193.47.165.134;CTRY:IL;IPV:NLI;EFV:NLI;SFV:NSPM;SFS:(10009020)(6009001)(428002)(377454003)(24454002)(479174004)(199003)(189002)(87936001)(2501002)(62966003)(31966008)(76176999)(33656002)(77156002)(106466001)(2201001)(77096005)(68736005)(4396001)(36756003)(101416001)(50986999)(86362001)(97736003)(2950100001)(92566001)(65816999)(54356999)(107046002)(21056001)(99396003)(59896002)(120916001)(23746002)(46102003)(80316001)(105586002)(6806004)(84676001)(64126003)(50466002)(83506001)(47776003)(65806001)(20776003)(65956001)(64706001)(7059030);DIR:OUT;SFP:1101;SCL:1;SRVR:DB4PR05MB0943;H:mtlcas13.mtl.com;FPR:;SPF:None;MLV:sfv;PTR:ErrorRetry;A:1;MX:1;LANG:en; X-DmarcAction: None X-Microsoft-Antispam: UriScan:;UriScan:; X-Microsoft-Antispam: BCL:0;PCL:0;RULEID:(3005003);SRVR:DB4PR05MB0943; X-Exchange-Antispam-Report-Test: UriScan:; X-Exchange-Antispam-Report-CFA-Test: BCL:0;PCL:0;RULEID:(601004);SRVR:DB4PR05MB0943; X-Forefront-PRVS: 0448A97BF2 X-Exchange-Antispam-Report-CFA-Test: BCL:0;PCL:0;RULEID:;SRVR:DB4PR05MB0943; X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Jan 2015 13:57:34.5997 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-Id: a652971c-7d2e-4d9b-a6a4-d149256f461b X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-OriginalAttributedTenantConnectingIp: TenantId=a652971c-7d2e-4d9b-a6a4-d149256f461b;Ip=[193.47.165.134] X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-FromEntityHeader: HybridOnPrem X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: DB4PR05MB0943 X-Microsoft-Antispam: BCL:0;PCL:0;RULEID:;SRVR:DB4PR05MB0863; X-OriginatorOrg: Mellanox.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 1/6/2015 4:54 AM, David Decotigny wrote: > This patch series increases the width of the supported/advertising > ethtool masks from 32 bits to 48. This should allow to breathe for a > couple more years (or... months?). Hi, Nice work. What worries me is that it is going to be for weeks more than years or months... Mellanox is about to release next month a driver for a new NIC, with 3 new speeds * few link modes for each + new link modes for 10G. It seems that we will need to consume almost all the new bits. Amir