netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: cls_u32: Add support for skip-sw flag to tc u32 classifier.

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Date:	Thu, 12 May 2016 00:15:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sridhar.samudrala@...el.com
Cc:	john.r.fastabend@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: cls_u32: Add support for skip-sw
 flag to tc u32 classifier.

From: "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 16:44:55 -0700

> 
> On 5/11/2016 4:23 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> This is a core semantic issue, and we have to make sure all amongst us
>> that we are all comfortable with exporting the offloadability controls
>> in the way you are implementing them.
> 
> I tried to implement the semantics based on an earlier discussion
> about these flags in this
> email thread.
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/401733

Most developers reading your patches will not know to go to that URL,
nor that we even had that discussion at all.