Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] net: ethtool: add dedicated RXFH driver callbacks

Jakub Kicinski
2025-06-25T20:17:03Z

On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:44:04 +0300 Gal Pressman wrote:
> On 11/06/2025 17:59, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > The future of n-tuple filters is uncertain within netlink.
>
> What does that mean exactly?

Just that I don't have a clear idea of where it should go.
In this series I was refactoring rxnfc code - one could argue
I should also add dedicated callbacks for n-tuple ioctls
which are also muxed into the rxnfc driver op. But at some
point some people were pushing for n-tuple filters to be
deprecated in favor of cls_flower. Also Jamal's P4-ish
proposal could become n-tuple-next-gen. Or we could lift
existing ntuple filters into netlink.. 🤷️

IDK where we are on that, so I'm not refactoring the ntuple callbacks.