From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: VJ Channel API - driver level (PATCH) Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 23:47:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20060502.234754.112157906.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4457E2FE.50505@neterion.com> <20060502160058.7af02254@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: alex@neterion.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:37284 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965117AbWECGsO (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 02:48:14 -0400 To: shemminger@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20060502160058.7af02254@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org I don't think we should be defining driver APIs when we haven't even figured out how the core of it would even work yet. A key part of this is the netfilter bits, that will require non-trivial flow identification, a hash will simply not be enough, and it will not be allowed to not support the netfilter bits properly since everyone will have netfilter enabled in one way or another.