On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:21:20PM +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> The legacy feature flags have long names (e.g. "generic-receive-offload")
> and short names (e.g. "gro"). While "ethtool -k" shows only long names,
> "ethtool -K" accepts only short names. This is a bit confusing as users
> have to resort to documentation to see what flag name to use; in
> particular, if a legacy flag corresponds to only one actual kernel feature,
> "ethtool -k" shows the output in the same form as if long flag name were
> a kernel feature name but this name cannot be used to set the flag/feature.
> 
> Accept both short and long legacy flag names in "ethool -K".
> 
> Reported-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-an...@yandex.ru>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkube...@suse.cz>

Thanks (belatedly) -- queued for next release!

John
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