From: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: <netdev@vger•kernel.org>, <yevgenyp@mellanox•com>,
<ogerlitz@mellanox•com>, <clsoto@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net/mlx4_core: Deprecate use_prio module parameter
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 15:59:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537DF4B0.3050006@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140521.154952.422112298525039373.davem@davemloft.net>
On 5/21/2014 10:49 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox•com>
> Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 11:37:41 +0300
>
>> It was used for steering by user priority for A0 steering. A0 mode is
>> not supported anymore. Printing a message and ignoring the parameter.
>>
>> CC: Carol Soto <clsoto@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox•com>
>
> So you completely took away a feature that was publicly exposed and
> available to the user?
>
> Sorry this is still not acceptable, you have to bring back A0
> steering, what if someone was using it?
>
> I sense you really don't care, and that I find really disturbing.
>
My description wasn't accurate. I resubmitted the patch set with a
better explanation about the purpose of this module param, and why we
don't expect that anything will break for anyone because we deprecated it.
Amir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-22 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-19 8:37 [PATCH net-next 0/2] net/mlx4_core: Deprecate module parameter use_prio Amir Vadai
2014-05-19 8:37 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] net/mlx4_core: Deprecate use_prio module parameter Amir Vadai
2014-05-21 19:49 ` David Miller
2014-05-22 12:59 ` Amir Vadai [this message]
2014-05-26 19:22 ` Ben Hutchings
2014-05-27 8:08 ` Amir Vadai
2014-05-19 8:37 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] net/mlx4_core: Replace pr_warning() with pr_warn() Amir Vadai
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