netdev - Re: Intel igb module command line configuration in kernel sources

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Message-ID: <1378391039.3159.1.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.level5networks.com>
Date:	Thu, 5 Sep 2013 15:23:59 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Andrew Davidoff <davidoff@...mf.net>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Intel igb module command line configuration in kernel sources

On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 22:51 -0400, Andrew Davidoff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I apologize that this is a user-type question but linux-net seems to
> have gone away, and I cannot find a more appropriate networking
> related mailing list.
> 
> Why are the Intel igb module configuration parameters, usually found
> in igb_param.c and part of the source from Intel, not included in the
> igb sources distributed with the linux kernel? I cannot find them in
> the kernel's igb source, modinfo doesn't list them, and if I try to
> use them as documented in the igb readme, I get errors because they
> are unrecognized (ex: RSS). Am I overlooking an alternate
> configuration method?

I don't know what you're specifically interested in, but a lot of this
should be configurable using ethtool.

Module parameters for device-specific settings are deprecated.

Ben.

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