Merge tag 'v4.20-rc2' into next-general

Sync to Linux 4.20-rc2 for downstream developers.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
index dc69391d2bba..c8f8e2455bf3 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
@@ -91,10 +91,6 @@
  * %ETHTOOL_GSET to get the current values before making specific
  * changes and then applying them with %ETHTOOL_SSET.
  *
- * Drivers that implement set_settings() should validate all fields
- * other than @cmd that are not described as read-only or deprecated,
- * and must ignore all fields described as read-only.
- *
  * Deprecated fields should be ignored by both users and drivers.
  */
 struct ethtool_cmd {
@@ -1800,14 +1796,9 @@ enum ethtool_reset_flags {
  * rejected.
  *
  * Deprecated %ethtool_cmd fields transceiver, maxtxpkt and maxrxpkt
- * are not available in %ethtool_link_settings. Until all drivers are
- * converted to ignore them or to the new %ethtool_link_settings API,
- * for both queries and changes, users should always try
- * %ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS first, and if it fails with -ENOTSUPP stick
- * only to %ETHTOOL_GSET and %ETHTOOL_SSET consistently. If it
- * succeeds, then users should stick to %ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS and
- * %ETHTOOL_SLINKSETTINGS (which would support drivers implementing
- * either %ethtool_cmd or %ethtool_link_settings).
+ * are not available in %ethtool_link_settings. These fields will be
+ * always set to zero in %ETHTOOL_GSET reply and %ETHTOOL_SSET will
+ * fail if any of them is set to non-zero value.
  *
  * Users should assume that all fields not marked read-only are
  * writable and subject to validation by the driver.  They should use