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 vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16DBEC19F28 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2022 15:48:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236984AbiHCPr6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2022 11:47:58 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:47216 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233327AbiHCPr5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2022 11:47:57 -0400 Received: from smtp87.ord1d.emailsrvr.com (smtp87.ord1d.emailsrvr.com [184.106.54.87]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 29793E08A for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2022 08:47:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=openvpn.net; s=20170822-45nk5nwl; t=1659541676; bh=i/m2J20otiRpiEV1Tx+blspiXLX0KONsIWyQG+pcTiU=; h=Date:Subject:To:From:From; b=huUq7ZsKeZpZCi7rOTPb9Z+dMn3GHOzc0b6J5Nw6GYqHFBmBIwpAReWJ+xvJqpXBT BDyXY9lvsMALa+BXOaBYmkBZEpMbRpwCdSXJl/A2u+v2h/+yyz94b6DBFye1QOFMtE PMitvMUdrcUDz+DI/WjSAcuWoT0z65sD2Md2QFZQ= X-Auth-ID: antonio@openvpn.net Received: by smtp11.relay.ord1d.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: antonio-AT-openvpn.net) with ESMTPSA id 9666A60083; Wed, 3 Aug 2022 11:47:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1219c53f-362e-cd55-73e0-87dfe281ec34@openvpn.net> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 17:48:45 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.12.0 Subject: Re: [RFC 1/1] net: introduce OpenVPN Data Channel Offload (ovpn-dco) Content-Language: en-US To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Andrew Lunn , netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller , Jakub Kicinski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20220719014704.21346-1-antonio@openvpn.net> <20220719014704.21346-2-antonio@openvpn.net> <52b9d7c9-9f7c-788e-2327-33af63b9c748@openvpn.net> <20220803084202.4e249bdb@hermes.local> From: Antonio Quartulli Organization: OpenVPN Inc. In-Reply-To: <20220803084202.4e249bdb@hermes.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Classification-ID: 70813dac-6f10-4cbb-869c-dc05eee17d75-1-1 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Hi Stephen, On 03/08/2022 17:42, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Kernel submissions for upstream must be standalone, and any infrastructure > that is only used by an out of tree kernel driver will not be accepted. > > The version you propose upstream must have no linux-compat wrappers. > Sorry kernel developers don't care or want to be concerned about some > out of tree project. There must have been some confusion - sorry about that. The repository I linked in my previous email is this very same driver packaged as "out-of-tree" module (i.e. for people running a kernel that does not yet ship ovpn-dco) and contains some compat wrapper. The driver I have submitted to the list is 100% standalone and does not contain any compat code. The only extra component required to do something useful with this driver is the OpenVPN software in userspace. I hope this clarifies. Regards, -- Antonio Quartulli OpenVPN Inc.