From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamal Hadi Salim Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v2 1/5] introduce IFE action Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 07:52:06 -0500 Message-ID: <56CDA776.6080403@mojatatu.com> References: <1456231760-2513-1-git-send-email-jhs@emojatatu.com> <1456231760-2513-2-git-send-email-jhs@emojatatu.com> <56CC5F73.9080201@iogearbox.net> <56CC6F3E.6000106@mojatatu.com> <56CC84F2.8030909@iogearbox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com, dj@verizon.com To: Daniel Borkmann , davem@davemloft.net Return-path: Received: from mail-io0-f182.google.com ([209.85.223.182]:32926 "EHLO mail-io0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751507AbcBXMwI (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Feb 2016 07:52:08 -0500 Received: by mail-io0-f182.google.com with SMTP id z135so36446265iof.0 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:52:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <56CC84F2.8030909@iogearbox.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 16-02-23 11:12 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote: > On 02/23/2016 03:39 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: > > My question was rather: should the kernel enforce the IDs and only > allow what the kernel dictates (and not in/out of tree modules)? If > yes, then there would be no need for a module parameter (and the > module param should be avoided in any case). > Maybe i should just take it out for now and assume whatever is in the kernel are the only allowed metadata. cheers, jamal