netdev - Re: [RFC] SPD basic actions per netdev

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Date:	Thu, 1 Apr 2010 14:01:45 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Timo Teräs <timo.teras@....fi>
Cc:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] SPD basic actions per netdev

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 07:52:34AM +0300, Timo Teräs wrote:
>
> IMHO, it's slightly confusing that in/fwd is split, but out is not.
> But that's the way it works. If you now override the how interface
> is checked for 'out' policy, it'll break current behaviour.

Unless I've misunderstood what his patch is trying to do, it would
seem that out policies would be completely unchanged.

Forward policies are not used on output.

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