From: Ben Hutchings Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:51:16 +0000 (+0000) Subject: ethtool: Clarify use of size field for ETHTOOL_GRXFHINDIR X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=14596f7006297b67516e2b6a2b26bcb11fe08fb3;p=linux-beck.git ethtool: Clarify use of size field for ETHTOOL_GRXFHINDIR In order to find out the device's RX flow hash table size, ethtool initially uses ETHTOOL_GRXFHINDIR with a buffer size of zero. This must be supported, but it is not necessary to support any other user buffer size less than the device table size. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/include/linux/ethtool.h b/include/linux/ethtool.h index 20db5b275c3f..0ec2fd412d03 100644 --- a/include/linux/ethtool.h +++ b/include/linux/ethtool.h @@ -543,8 +543,9 @@ struct compat_ethtool_rxnfc { /** * struct ethtool_rxfh_indir - command to get or set RX flow hash indirection * @cmd: Specific command number - %ETHTOOL_GRXFHINDIR or %ETHTOOL_SRXFHINDIR - * @size: On entry, the array size of the user buffer. On return from - * %ETHTOOL_GRXFHINDIR, the array size of the hardware indirection table. + * @size: On entry, the array size of the user buffer, which may be zero + * for %ETHTOOL_GRXFHINDIR. On return from %ETHTOOL_GRXFHINDIR, the + * array size of the hardware indirection table. * @ring_index: RX ring/queue index for each hash value */ struct ethtool_rxfh_indir {