netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/4] dpaa2-eth: Add flow steering support without masking

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Date:   Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:46:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ruxandra.radulescu@....com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, ioana.ciornei@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] dpaa2-eth: Add flow steering support without
 masking

From: Ioana Ciocoi Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu@....com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 17:13:27 +0000

> On DPAA2 platforms that lack a TCAM (like LS1088A), masking of
> flow steering keys is not supported. Until now we didn't offer
> flow steering capabilities at all on these platforms.
> 
> Introduce a limited support for flow steering, where we only
> allow ethtool rules that share a common key (i.e. have the same
> header fields). If a rule with a new composition key is wanted,
> the user must first manually delete all previous rules.
> 
> First patch fixes a minor bug, the next two cleanup and prepare
> the code and the last one introduces the actual FS support.

Series applied, thanks Ioana.