Re: [ethtool PATCH] ethtool: Support n-tuple filter programming
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2010-02-26 05:53:39
From: Jeff Garzik <redacted> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:26:38 -0500
On 02/25/2010 08:49 PM, Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P wrote:quoted
This will require a small kernel change. Will something like this be pulled in at this point, given that 2.6.33 just released?The n-tuple stuff is not in 2.6.33's ethtool interface, so it hasn't actually made it into a released kernel at this point. It seems reasonable for 2.6.34 to either add ETHTOOL_GSTRINGS_COUNT or update drvinfo. Even if net-next has already been pulled into post-2.6.33 merge window, that would IMO qualify as a reasonable interface bugfix to get upstream. The ethtool n-tuple ABI is not locked into stone until 2.6.34 is released by Linus.
Right.