Re: [PATCH net-next 06/10] {NET,IB}/mlx4: Add device managed flow steering firmware API

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Or Gerlitz [off-list ref] wrote:

On 7/2/2012 12:42 AM, David Miller wrote:

quoted

[...] Module parameters stink because every driver is going to provide the
knob differently, with a different name, and different semantics. This
creates a terrible user experience, and I will not allow it.

OK, so if looking on what we are left with on the table, seems that sysfs
entry on the mlx4_core
level (as we do for the port link type {IB, Eth} or IB port MTU) could be
fine here, Roland, agree?

What was wrong with Dave's initial suggestion of ethtool?  All the
other steering stuff is configured that way, why not this hash?

 - R.