[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next v3 2/2] ice: Implement 'flow-type ether' rules

[Brett Creeley]

On 12/20/2023 6:19 AM, Plachno, Lukasz wrote:
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> On 12/19/2023 6:35 PM, Brett Creeley wrote:
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>> On 12/13/2023 8:34 PM, Lukasz Plachno wrote:
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>>> From: Jakub Buchocki <jakubx.buchocki at intel.com>
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>>> Add support for 'flow-type ether' Flow Director rules via ethtool.
>>>
>>> Rules not containing masks are processed by the Flow Director,
>>> and support the following set of input parameters in all combinations:
>>> src, dst, proto, vlan-etype, vlan, action.
>>>
>>> It is possible to specify address mask in ethtool parameters but only
>>> 00:00:00:00:00 and FF:FF:FF:FF:FF are valid.
>>> The same applies to proto, vlan-etype and vlan masks:
>>> only 0x0000 and 0xffff masks are valid.
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>> Would it be useful to have user facing error messages for invalid masks
>> stating what the valid masks are?
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> Do you think about something like:
> dev_warn("Driver only supports masks 00:00:00:00:00:00 and
> FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF"),
> or there is a way to pass custom message to ethtool to print it to user?

Using a dev_err()/dev_warn() was more along the lines of what I was 
thinking.

Brett
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>>> Signed-off-by: Jakub Buchocki <jakubx.buchocki at intel.com>
>>> Co-developed-by: Mateusz Pacuszka <mateuszx.pacuszka at intel.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mateusz Pacuszka <mateuszx.pacuszka at intel.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel at intel.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Lukasz Plachno <lukasz.plachno at intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>   .../net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool_fdir.c | 128 +++++++++++++++++-
>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_fdir.c     |  27 ++++
>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_fdir.h     |  11 ++
>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_type.h     |   1 +
>>>   4 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
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