On 02/04/2016 12:32 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 04:04:36 +0100 > Nikolay Aleksandrov <ra...@blackwall.org> wrote: > >> >> +static inline int ethtool_validate_speed(__u32 speed) >> +{ > > > No need for inline. > This is defined in a header, if it's not inline you start getting "defined but not used" warnings.
> But why check for valid value at all. At some point in the > future, there will be yet another speed adopted by some standard body > and the switch statement would need another value. > > Why not accept any value? This is a virtual device. > It was moved near the defined values so everyone adding a new speed would remember to update the validation function as well. That being said, I don't object to being able to set any custom speed to the virtio_net device especially when there're physical devices that can have speeds outside of these defines. Michael do you have any objections if I respin without the speed validation ? Thanks, Nik