From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: roopa Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 v2] route: label externally offloaded routes Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 06:46:29 -0700 Message-ID: <5506DEB5.2030107@cumulusnetworks.com> References: <1426447894-41398-1-git-send-email-sfeldma@gmail.com> <20150316131805.GF12614@gospo.home.greyhouse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sfeldma@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, stephen@networkplumber.org, jiri@resnulli.us, tarbal@gmail.com, linville@tuxdriver.com To: Andy Gospodarek Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f174.google.com ([209.85.192.174]:33337 "EHLO mail-pd0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754284AbbCPNqc (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:46:32 -0400 Received: by pdnc3 with SMTP id c3so58874369pdn.0 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 06:46:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150316131805.GF12614@gospo.home.greyhouse.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 3/16/15, 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. > > +1