From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: (Lack of) specification for RX n-tuple filtering Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:14:41 +0000 Message-ID: <1291835681.2560.53.camel@bwh-desktop> References: <1279832544.2104.63.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com> <4C48BD1A.4060409@chelsio.com> <1283870637.2270.10.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com> <1291825443.31064.193.camel@lb-tlvb-vladz> <1291828940.2560.17.camel@bwh-desktop> <1291833578.17102.69.camel@lb-tlvb-vladz> <1291834931.2560.42.camel@bwh-desktop> <1291835453.24019.13.camel@lb-tlvb-vladz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dimitris Michailidis , Peter Waskiewicz , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , David Miller To: Vladislav Zolotarov Return-path: Received: from exchange.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]:49592 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755859Ab0LHTOq (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:14:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1291835453.24019.13.camel@lb-tlvb-vladz> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 21:10 +0200, Vladislav Zolotarov wrote: > > 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? No, we can't remove userland interfaces. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.