Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 3/4] ixgbe: Add support for ndo_ll_poll

[David Miller]

From: Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 11:24:41 +0300

> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:14 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: "Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 10:06:43 +0300
>>
>>> Hopefully this series will be accepted so we can send follow up support
>>> for the bnx2x as well.
>>
>> I think in two or three more iterations it will be merged.
>>
>> There are no objections on the fundamentals, it's just implementation
>> details and coding style at this point.
> 
> Dave, sorry, I might be a bit behind the rest of the reviewers, but I
> just fail to understand nor find any reference that explains the
> module param of ixgbe nor it makes sense to me to merge that piece of
> the code upstream (its not for staging, correct?), as I wrote here
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=136908123432072&w=2 basically, I
> know you're not a great fun of module params (to say the least) and
> surely not something named  "allow_unsafe_removal", thoughts?

It's one of those "implementation details", I hate it too.
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