On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 05:19:23PM -0800, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote: > From: Maciej Żenczykowski <m...@google.com> > > prior to fetching it from kernel. > > Otherwise we run the risk of very tail portion of it (dmac field) > being left entirely uninitialized, and likely containing some sort > of stale data.
The dmac member of struct ethtool_coalesce was removed by commit c0b078ce7e88 ("Revert "ethtool: Add DMA Coalescing support"") because it has never been added in kernel (as that would break compatibility with older ethtool versions). Michal Kubecek