netdev - RE: [EXT] [PATCH iwl-net v2 1/2] igc: Report VLAN EtherType matching back to user

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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 08:45:28 +0100
From: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>
To: Suman Ghosh <sumang@...vell.com>, Jesse Brandeburg
 <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>, Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
 Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [EXT] [PATCH iwl-net v2 1/2] igc: Report VLAN EtherType
 matching back to user

> [Suman] It is up to you. But I feel, in that case we should have some
> checks to reject the ntuple rule if user is providing some valid mask
> value.

Sure. That's another issue and deserves a separate patch.

> Otherwise, there will be mismatch between user expectation and
> driver functionality.

Yeah, it's the whole point of series to improve the user experience.

Thanks,
Kurt

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