From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <ra...@blackwall.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:49:06 +0100
> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com>
>
> This reverts commit 00ee59271777 ("net: fix __netdev_update_features return
> on ndo_set_features failure")
> and adds a comment explaining why it's okay to return a value other than
> 0 upon error. Some drivers might actually change flags and return an
> error so it's better to fire a spurious notification rather than miss
> these.
>
> CC: Michał Mirosław <mirq-li...@rere.qmqm.pl>
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com>
> ---
> Thanks to Michal for the explanation on why it was made to act like that.
> Also sorry for the noise, unfortunately I missed this. IMO this should've
> been an all or nothing op from the beginning.
Applied.
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