net: provide a default dev->ethtool_ops
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Sun, 16 Sep 2012 09:17:26 +0000 (09:17 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:40:15 +0000 (15:40 -0400)
Instead of forcing device drivers to provide empty ethtool_ops or tweak
net/core/ethtool.c again, we could provide a generic ethtool_ops.

This occurred to me when I wanted to add GSO support to GRE tunnels.
ethtool -k support should be generic for all drivers.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/dev.c
net/core/ethtool.c

diff --cc net/core/dev.c
Simple merge
Simple merge