netdev - Re: [patch net-next] net: propagate tc filter chain index down the ndo_setup

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Date:   Thu, 08 Jun 2017 09:56:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhs@...atatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        dsa@...ulusnetworks.com, edumazet@...gle.com, daniel@...earbox.net,
        alexander.h.duyck@...el.com, simon.horman@...ronome.com,
        mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] net: propagate tc filter chain index down the
 ndo_setup_tc call

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Tue,  6 Jun 2017 17:00:16 +0200

> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> 
> We need to push the chain index down to the drivers, so they have the
> information to which chain the rule belongs. For now, no driver supports
> multichain offload, so only chain 0 is supported. This is needed to
> prevent chain squashes during offload for now. Later this will be used
> to implement multichain offload.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>

Applied, thanks Jiri.