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From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
To: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RFC: how to control device specific features.  sysfs or mod param?
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:55:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1260006955.3565.12.camel@localhost> (raw)

This is a general question to folks to get some kind of consensus on
controlling device-specific modes.  Currently in ixgbe, I can have two
different modes of our Flow Director mechanism.  One is the current one
in use today, the other is part of a patchset for programming n-tuple
filters that will be submitted soon.

My question is I want to toggle the underlying hardware mode to use one
or the other filter mechanism.  I can either do this using a module
parameter, which I'd like to avoid, or I can do this in a sysfs
parameter.  What do people think is the best approach?  Is there another
option I'm not considering here?

Thanks,
-PJ Waskiewicz


             reply	other threads:[~2009-12-05  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-05  9:55 Peter P Waskiewicz Jr [this message]
2009-12-05 10:13 ` RFC: how to control device specific features. sysfs or mod param? David Miller
2009-12-05 10:22   ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2009-12-05 10:25     ` David Miller
2009-12-05 10:29       ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr

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