netdev - Re: Question on RX packet classification in ethtool userspace

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Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:24:46 -0800
From:	Alexander H Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"santwona.behera@....com" <santwona.behera@....com>,
	"jeff@...zik.org" <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question on RX packet classification in ethtool userspace

On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 15:19 -0800, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 14:52 -0800, Duyck, Alexander H wrote:
> > So I was looking into the option of replacing the ETHTOOL_GRXNTUPLE
> > call with something like ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL and it seems like I
> > wasn't having much luck finding the userspace implementation in the
> > ethtool.
> 
> I wasn't aware until now that there was a public implementation!
> 
> > I eventually found a patch in patchwork at
> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/23223/ which is supposed to add
> > support but the current ethtool git tree doesn't appear to contain
> > this code.  I was wondering if I am missing something and it is on a
> > branch somewhere, or is this something that was not applied to the
> > userspace for some specific reason?
> 
> Thanks for digging this up.  It's not in any branch that I know of.  I'm
> about to go on vacation, but I'll look at it when I get back.  I would
> appreciate it if someone would refresh the patch against current ethtool
> (preferably reusing some of the functions added for the RX n-tuple
> operations).
> 
> Ben.
> 

I'll look into updating the patch.

Thanks,

Alex

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