netdev - Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: disable LRO unless stated otherwise

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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2015 10:50:21 +0200
From:	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
To:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: disable LRO unless stated otherwise

On Tue, 26 May 2015 15:03:56 -0700, Pravin Shelar wrote:
> OVS interface for generic networking device operation looks odd. have
> you considered adding new device ioctl to do this?

New ioctls for networking configuration are generally not allowed. The
preferred way to configure networking is netlink. And as this is very
much ovs specific (all other users of dev_disable_lro such as bridging
want to do this unconditionally), ovs netlink is the correct place to
put this to.

 Jiri

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