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Message-ID: <537DF4B0.3050006@mellanox.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 May 2014 15:59:28 +0300
From:	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <yevgenyp@...lanox.com>,
	<ogerlitz@...lanox.com>, <clsoto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net/mlx4_core: Deprecate use_prio module
 parameter

On 5/21/2014 10:49 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 11:37:41 +0300
>
>> It was used for steering by user priority for A0 steering. A0 mode is
>> not supported anymore. Printing a message and ignoring the parameter.
>>
>> CC: Carol Soto <clsoto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>
>
> So you completely took away a feature that was publicly exposed and
> available to the user?
>
> Sorry this is still not acceptable, you have to bring back A0
> steering, what if someone was using it?
>
> I sense you really don't care, and that I find really disturbing.
>

My description wasn't accurate. I resubmitted the patch set with a 
better explanation about the purpose of this module param, and why we 
don't expect that anything will break for anyone because we deprecated it.

Amir
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