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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:00:15 +0200
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Julius Bairaktaris <julius@bairaktaris.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next v2 0/4] netfilter: offload a TCP flow whose reply
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On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 03:54:34AM +0200, Julius Bairaktaris wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 03:42:58AM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > This series are a no-go in this approach.
> 
> Understood, I drop it.
> 
> > Please, given we are discussing one series of you quite recently...
> > let's handle one thing at a time.
> 
> Agreed, the fdb series first.
> 
> Some context on why there are so many: they all come from the OpenWrt
> PR that adds flowtable offload for the Qualcomm IPQ807x PPE:
> 
>   https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/24806
> 
> That PR carries the kernel changes it needs as patches. I am sending
> them upstream so that OpenWrt can carry backports instead of local
> patches.
> 
> I know the rule that there must be an in-tree user. The PPE driver is
> not upstream, so I only send changes that stand on their own: fixes to
> the software path, or features that existing drivers like airoha and
> mtk use.

Thanks for the context. As said, let's go one by one after each
issue/scenario. We will eventually get to all of your described
scenarios.