netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 4/5] ixgbe: Add Flow Director configuration support as a mod parameter

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Message-Id: <20100108.002449.190520102.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:24:49 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com,
	peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com, deri@...p.org,
	joseph.gasparakis@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 4/5] ixgbe: Add Flow Director
 configuration support as a mod parameter

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:49:29 -0800

> From: PJ Waskiewicz <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
> 
> This patch adds the ability to change the Flow Director behavior in
> ixgbe through a module parameter.  ixgbe, on 82599 hardware, can support
> hash-based or perfect-based filtering.  It currently uses hash-based, and
> should have a knob to enable perfect-based filtering.
> 
> This will be used in conjunction with the ethtool n-tuple filter
> programming support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Use a generic ethtool boolean flag or similar, not "yet another
different-in-every-driver" module parameter please.
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