netdev - Re: RFC: ethtool support for n-tuple filter programming

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Message-Id: <1257745762.2609.5.camel@ppwaskie-mobl2>
Date:	Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:49:21 -0800
From:	Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: ethtool support for n-tuple filter programming

On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 21:27 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
> Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:57:21 -0800
> 
> > Any comments, thoughts, suggestions, or ideas are welcome.
> 
> We can use the existing datastructures and defines used for
> ETHTOOL_GRX* for new ethtool commands that do filtering.
> 
> NIU can filter on these tuples too.

Are you suggesting to extend the flow hash stuff that is already in
ethtool (same ioctl)?  If so, that makes sense.  I'll go ahead and get
some patches together for review.

Thanks,
-PJ

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