From: Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 06:06:02 -0500

> On 16-02-17 12:18 AM, John Fastabend wrote:
>> This adds an ixgbe data structure that is used to determine what
>> headers:fields can be matched and in what order they are supported.
>>
>> For hardware devices this can be a bit tricky because typically
>> only pre-programmed (firmware, ucode, rtl) parse graphs will be
>> supported and we don't yet have an interface to change these from
>> the OS. So its sort of a you get whatever your friendly vendor
>> provides affair at the moment.
>>
>> In the future we can add the get routines and set routines to
>> update this data structure. One interesting thing to note here
>> is the data structure here identifies ethernet, ip, and tcp
>> fields without having to hardcode them as enumerations or use
>> other identifiers.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastab...@intel.com>
> 
> 
> should __u32 be u32? Also at some points you seem to interchangeably
> use unsigned int vs u32. I think most of unsigned ints should be u32.

Anything only kernel visible should be 'u32', whereas if the object is
exported via a uapi header file it should be '__u32'.

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