netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: ethtool: Add destination MAC address to flow steering API

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Date:	Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:55:22 +0200
From:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Cc:	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	Yan Burman <yanb@...lanox.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: ethtool: Add destination MAC address to
 flow steering API

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Alexander Duyck
<alexander.h.duyck@...el.com> wrote:
>
> Is there any special reason why you need to change the size of this
> structure?  It seems like you could probably just replace the data
> section with a union containing either 8 bytes of user specified data or
> your MAC address data.  Then we wouldn't need all of the changes to the
> rest of the flow specifier.


basically, we followed Ben's suggestions made here
http://marc.info/?t=134977576500003
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