linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] net/mlx5: Implement swp_l4_csum

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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:16:36 +0200
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@...il.com>, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, 
	Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, 
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, 
	Mark Bloch <mbloch@...dia.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, 
	Vlad Dumitrescu <vdumitrescu@...dia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/mlx5: Implement swp_l4_csum_mode via
 devlink params

Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 03:38:05PM +0200, kuba@...nel.org wrote:
>On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:18:20 +0200 Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> >+	DEVLINK_PARAM_DRIVER(MLX5_DEVLINK_PARAM_ID_SWP_L4_CSUM_MODE,  
>> 
>> Why this is driver specific? Isn't this something other drivers might
>> eventually implement as well?
>
>Seems highly unlikely, TBH.

Well even unlikely, looks like a generic param, not something
driver-specific. That is my point.