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From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 12:50:00 -0600

> Hi. Thanks for you feedback.  Could you clarify on what constitutes
> basic operation?  I just want to be sure if we should remove the
> other module parameters or just this one in particular?

With very minute exceptions, there should be no driver modules.

If a facility does not exist for run time configuration via ethtool
or similar, extend those facilities to suit your needs.