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From: "Vladislav Zolotarov" <vladz@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: (Lack of) specification for RX n-tuple filtering
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 21:10:53 +0200
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> The implementation of the -U
> option could potentially be made to fallback to ETHTOOL_SRXCLSRLINS if
> vlan_tag and user_def are not specified.
> 

Having said that, don't u think that it could be more user friendly to
extend the ETHTOOL_SRXCLSRLINS interface to handle the lan_tag and
user_def and drop the n-tuple interface at all?

thanks,
vlad