netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net/sched: cls_flower: Add user specified data

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Date:   Sat, 14 Jan 2017 12:46:42 -0500
From:   Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Paul Blakey <paulb@...lanox.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@...lanox.com>,
        Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
        Roi Dayan <roid@...lanox.com>, Roman Mashak <mrv@...atatu.com>,
        Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/sched: cls_flower: Add user specified data

On 17-01-14 10:29 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 04:03:17PM CET, jhs@...atatu.com wrote:

> Fair. So could this be done like IFLA_PHYS_SWITCH_ID and
> IFLA_PHYS_PORT_ID. They can have variable size, max is MAX_PHYS_ITEM_ID_LEN
>
> We can let user to pass arbitrary len up to 16 bytes. This has benefit in
> fact that if in future this needs to be extended to say 32 bytes, it is
> backward compatible. We just change the check in kernel.
>

Sure. Ive run out of time for now; but will work on a new version later.

cheers,
jamal