From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 33C94C55165 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:15:28 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender:List-Subscribe:List-Help :List-Post:List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To: From:Date:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From: Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Owner; bh=keWNhaZvAN9UXv6Cklyu/Qy5dBpq2j5/cGuZSJT/4hY=; b=fQAtj/UXL9pNNb/BCv5WXY56nu PvMouSU7Efrd3p40LIwXOgekT7FXXbQAfeRtV9gpqnSzEpkDQ8smjeeDbtgcm2oN26Nb8NnSxVhJH VWjjz9Lh/eFiTQh82uCnxjoauwiVqChBpIeWCVY+MNkbP+Tb3Jh6afzJiHOH6H2I3CZDmv+RfHqKj huSFI5clv5K2CwjUNToEaxXQhqIW4HeZxjrMjy+1cTEk3j21cL071xbLpJKXnMcGI0Hj6mPjm/Nvj nQWbGQ3ByGXYt89AIzaf4xNvxGkVqg2HJ4Cz3OXr0yVRinxCYwWsqpVl/6vowGKW6D6BXK/+DNjNv 92vX/mhQ==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.99.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1wpZyI-0000000BTmv-0Qo8; Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:15:26 +0000 Received: from sea.source.kernel.org ([2600:3c0a:e001:78e:0:1991:8:25]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.99.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1wpZyH-0000000BTmp-1ewA for linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:15:25 +0000 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (quasi.space.kernel.org [100.103.45.18]) by sea.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3DC9407BA; Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:15:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7778F1F000E9; Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:15:22 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1785453322; bh=keWNhaZvAN9UXv6Cklyu/Qy5dBpq2j5/cGuZSJT/4hY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=jhvYvm8uUJWeRNdL0c4+CNMzozt9d1q4xDakuCMuT3U5ojJt/kVxjRgzM+EgxrZB1 Wdco1BefIYa5VK1zeDDsL1fM1I8PfRikVSf3M/1iAqR2+k91xH+T0ddk++NNaz4pvA U5SDSoVAmsw8V8vtwRJQc5qfBw7DQNSOX+88PkVyaH1j8XNPyeqDa1GCA0NhobXeU3 lu7yO/dGWhCoZfSiDrXCx398kmdOcuO6BWWFo9SJ4DQHLAa7BEVAmOwYp6TGxrkoZi QKo9BTsRSM30kTkX/IXGhpcJiuoX5XIPYfZx53PHySzBpcVteDmKCHx0q3NRfa4euJ 0qMRs41QHIrtg== Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:15:21 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Nilay Shroff Cc: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbusch@kernel.org, hch@lst.de, hare@suse.de, sagi@grimberg.me, chaitanyak@nvidia.com, gjoyce@linux.ibm.com, "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] net: add helper for device lookup by destination address Message-ID: <20260730161521.22695fff@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20260727151652.3660476-2-nilay@linux.ibm.com> References: <20260727151652.3660476-1-nilay@linux.ibm.com> <20260727151652.3660476-2-nilay@linux.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "Linux-nvme" Errors-To: linux-nvme-bounces+linux-nvme=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:46:44 +0530 Nilay Shroff wrote: > Add netdev_get_by_addr(), a helper that looks up the routing table to > retrieve the network device associated with a destination address. The > helper also supports netdev reference tracking. This does not explain why you're doing this. Please CC the whole series to netdev or write better commit messages.