Subject: Re: [PATCH] VNIC: Adding support for Cavium ThunderX network controller

From: Robert Richter <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 19:33:45 +0100

On 03.11.14 10:16:51, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:44:11 +0530
> Sunil Kovvuri <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Stephen Hemminger
> > <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:54:34 +0100
> > > Robert Richter <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> +#ifdef       VNIC_RSS_SUPPORT
> > >> +static int rss_config = RSS_IP_HASH_ENA | RSS_TCP_HASH_ENA | RSS_UDP_HASH_ENA;
> > >> +module_param(rss_config, int, S_IRUGO);
> > >> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(rss_config,
> > >> +              "RSS hash config [bits 8:0] (Bit0:L2 extended, 1:IP, 2:TCP, 3:TCP SYN, 4:UDP, 5:L4 extended, 6:ROCE 7:L3 bi-directional, 8:L4 bi-directional)");
> > >> +#endif
> > >
> > > This should managed  be via ethtool ETHTOOL_GRXFH rather than a module parameter.
> > Thanks, i will add setting hash options via ETHTOOL_SRXFH as well.
> > The idea here is to have a choice of hash while module load (through
> > module params) and if it needs to be changed runtime then
> > via Ethtool.
> > 
> > Sunil.
> 
> Network developers do not like vendor unique module parameters.
> Anything device specific doesn't work in a generic distro environment.

Do you accept unique module parameters in parallel to ethtool support
or should this be removed?

-Robert