From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Kicinski Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: rename ndo_setup_tc to ndo_setup_offload Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:31:36 -0700 Message-ID: <20180718113136.45a0e049@cakuba.lan> References: <20180718161404.24198-1-pablo@netfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, thomas.lendacky@amd.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com, ariel.elior@cavium.com, michael.chan@broadcom.com, santosh@chelsio.com, madalin.bucur@nxp.com, yisen.zhuang@huawei.com, salil.mehta@huawei.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, tariqt@mellanox.com, saeedm@mellanox.com, jiri@mellanox.com, idosch@mellanox.com, ganeshgr@chelsio.com, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com, peppe.cavallaro@st.com, alexandre.torgue@st.com, joabreu@synopsys.com, grygorii.strashko@ti.com, andrew@lunn.ch, vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com To: Pablo Neira Ayuso Return-path: Received: from mail-pl0-f65.google.com ([209.85.160.65]:33009 "EHLO mail-pl0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726158AbeGRTKu (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:10:50 -0400 Received: by mail-pl0-f65.google.com with SMTP id 6-v6so2421649plb.0 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:31:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20180718161404.24198-1-pablo@netfilter.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:14:04 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > One of the recurring complaints is that we do not have, as a driver > writer, a central location from which we would be fed offloading rules > into a NIC. This was brought up again during Netconf'18 in Boston. > > This patch just renames ndo_setup_tc to ndo_setup_offload as a very > early initial work to prepare for follow up patches that discuss/propose > unified flow representation for the existing offload programming APIs: > ethtool_rxnfc, cls_flower, cls_u32 and (probably, not yet upstream) > conntrack. > > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski