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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 10/12] openvswitch: add support for datapath
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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 22:28:51 +0200
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Cc: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>,
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Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 06:37:05PM CEST, jhs@mojatatu.com wrote:
>On 09/01/14 04:13, Simon Horman wrote:
>>On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:20:55AM -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>
>>>I actually have no issues with whatever classifier someone decides
>>>to use. To each their poison. But I do take issue mandating the
>>>specified classifer it as THE CLASSIFIER as in this case,
>>>is where i start taking issue. I have a few things that i offload
>>>to hardware with speacilized classifiers such that i object strongly
>>>to the approach this driver has taken.
>>
>>My reading of this thread is that allowing different classifiers
>>is not under dispute.
>
>
>I am not sure how you reached that conclusion by reading this thread;->
>But i would be glad if that was the conclusion and i missed it.

Jamal, please be ensured that no one I know of is against future
different classifiers.