[PATCH 02/12] net/txgbe: refactor FDIR filter to improve functionality

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri,  6 Jun 2025 16:01:07 +0800
Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu at trustnetic.com> wrote:

> There were some defects in the original configuration for flow director
> filter. Now make the following improvements:
> 
> 1) Fix incorrect parsing to ntuple filter when set the pattern likes:
>    flow create ... ipv4 / udp dst is ... / raw ... / end actions ... / end
> 2) Fix flex offset base to set item RAW relative = 1, and convert RAW
>    pattern string to hex bytes to match the hardware identification.
> 3) Fix to create FDIR rules for VXLAN/GRE/NVGRE/GENEVE packets, they will
>    match the rules in the inner layers.
> 4) Support IPv6 perfect mode.
> 5) Add packet type mask to match more types of packets if the pattern is
>    default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu at trustnetic.com>

This patch fails the checks for flow rules vs doc.

$ ./devtools/check-doc-vs-code.sh 
rte_flow doc out of sync for txgbe
	item geneve
	item gre