From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Gospodarek Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 v2] route: label externally offloaded routes Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:33:33 -0400 Message-ID: <20150325003332.GA1051@gospo> References: <1426447894-41398-1-git-send-email-sfeldma@gmail.com> <20150316131805.GF12614@gospo.home.greyhouse.net> <20150317132456.GG12614@gospo.home.greyhouse.net> <20150317134921.GE2036@nanopsycho.lan> <20150317191557.GB18165@gospo.home.greyhouse.net> <20150324155137.03671191@urahara> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jiri Pirko , Scott Feldman , Netdev , Roopa Prabhu , Jeff Kirsher , John Linville To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from mail-yh0-f43.google.com ([209.85.213.43]:35057 "EHLO mail-yh0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751915AbbCYAdk (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:33:40 -0400 Received: by yhim52 with SMTP id m52so4771069yhi.2 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150324155137.03671191@urahara> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 03:51:37PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: jG> On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:15:57 -0400 > Andy Gospodarek wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 02:49:21PM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote: > > > Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 02:24:56PM CET, gospo@cumulusnetworks.com wrote: > > > >On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 09:14:50PM -0700, Scott Feldman wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Andy Gospodarek > > > >> wrote: > > > >> > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:31:34PM -0700, sfeldma@gmail.com wrote: > > > >> >> From: Scott Feldman > > > >> >> > > > >> >> v2: > > > >> >> > > > >> >> No clear outcome on polling for choices of "external", "offload", "hw", or > > > >> >> "hardware". Andy's concern about "external" being confusing for users is > > > >> >> valid. So, I'm making executive decision to use "external_offload" for label, > > > >> >> as suggested by Jiri. > > > >> > > > > >> > This seems like quite a mouthful. Just make it 'offload' or 'hardware' > > > >> > so the output of 'ip route show' isn't so long that it will frequently > > > >> > be longer than 80 chars. Being longer than 80 chars is going to be > > > >> > irritating for _many_ users. > > > >> > > > >> Andy, since you have passion on this topic, would you mind taking it > > > >> from here to get consensus, and post an updated patch, if needed? > > > > > > > >Absolutely. I felt bad responding with more complaints yesterday > > > >without proposing an alternative patch. > > > > > > > >I'll be happy to handle this -- it will elimininate at least one > > > >complainer! > > > > > > > > > > > >> I was about to suggest a new made-up work like "keroff" and someday > > > >> the new word is added to Websters . Daddy, what's "keroff"? Oh son, > > > >> that means "offloaded from kernel to external device". Ya, actually, > > > >> that's my vote: keroff. > > > > > > Hmm, on the second thought, shouldn't it be rather "extoff" ? > > > > > > > I'm really liking the sound of 'extoffk' ;) > > > > I am bouncing this patch, come back when you decide on a name. Based on the polling I did, the concensus was that people preferred to use the string 'offload' to describe these entries. I'll submit the patch I had prepared now.