Re: [PATCH net v2] switchdev: don't abort hardware ipv4 fib offload on failure to program fib entry in hardware

Jiri Pirko
2015-05-19T17:01:26Z

Tue, May 19, 2015 at 06:34:18PM CEST, davem@davemloft.net wrote:
>From: roopa <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
>Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 22:58:54 -0700
>
>> from where I see, with the limitations on these boxes, this requires
>> every app, every `ip route` cmd running on the box to explicitly
>> specify offload when running on this hardware.
>
>Users know what they are doing, and will ask for a policy change.
>
>The default should be what happens right now.

I agree.