Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [net-next] igb: add function to set I210 transmit mode

On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 08:27:38AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:

I really don' think this patch is going to work.  If you are going to
implement something like this and have a hope to get it accepted into
the Linux kernel you need to come up with a solution that will work
fore more than this one device.  We don't want the drivers having to
carry around their own sysfs controls for things that really are not
proprietary to the device.  There needs to be a generic kernel
interface for this.  The fact is something like QAV more than likely
exists on other devices as well so it may be worth while to look into
seeing if you could come up with some way of interfacing this with
either ethtool ,iproute2, or maybe even the DCB/LLDP utilities since
this is essentially splitting the Tx into two separate traffic
classes.

Yes to all of this.
 

Also for these kind of patches it would be best to include the netdev
mailing list.  That way it can be reviewed by a wider audience and you
are much more likely to get this accepted upstream rather than have it
rejected when Jeff Kirsher attempts to submit it.

Right.  We just had a discussion about implementing TSN, and we will
need proper infrastructure in place *before* we start hacking
drivers.

Thanks,
Richard