netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH] net: sched: cls_flower: Classify packets using port ranges

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Date:   Wed, 17 Oct 2018 21:42:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     amritha.nambiar@...el.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com,
        sridhar.samudrala@...el.com, jhs@...atatu.com,
        xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, jiri@...nulli.us
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] net: sched: cls_flower: Classify packets
 using port ranges

From: Amritha Nambiar <amritha.nambiar@...el.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 06:53:30 -0700

> Added support in tc flower for filtering based on port ranges.
> This is a rework of the RFC patch at:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/969595/

You never addressed Cong's feedback asking you to explain why this
can't be simply built using existing generic filtering facilities that
exist already.

I appreciate that you addressed Jiri's feedback, but Cong's feedback is
just as, if not more, important.

Thank you.