netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 0/3] qdisc and tx_queue_len cleanups for IFF_NO

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Date:   Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:13:44 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     brouer@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, phil@....cc, robert@...julf.se,
        jhs@...atatu.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 0/3] qdisc and tx_queue_len cleanups for
 IFF_NO_QUEUE devices

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 14:55:56 +0100

> This patchset is a cleanup for IFF_NO_QUEUE devices.  It will
> hopefully help userspace get a more consistent behavior when attaching
> qdisc to such virtual devices.

I'm still thinking about this.

My reservation about this is basically since the one known offender in
userspace acknowledged that what it was doing wrong, and fixed it
quickly already, I see no reason to explicitly accomodate this.