On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 05:19:23PM -0800, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> From: Maciej Żenczykowski <[email protected]>
>
> 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