[PATCH net-next] Driver for IBM System i/p VNIC protocol

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Sun Dec 6 14:25:51 AEDT 2015


From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri,  4 Dec 2015 11:49:46 -0600

> +static int ibmvnic_buffs_per_pool = IBMVNIC_BUFFS_PER_POOL;
> +module_param(ibmvnic_buffs_per_pool, int, S_IRUGO);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(ibmvnic_buffs_per_pool,
> +		 "IBMVNIC number of buffers per rx pool");

Please do not use module parameters for settings that effect
the basic operation of the driver.

Instead use facilities that are generic and provide the same
user interface for all networking drivers, such as ethtool.

Otherwise users would need to learn a different way to configure the
same thing on different devices, which is not acceptable.


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