netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: rename ndo_setup_tc to ndo_setup

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Message-ID: <20180718113136.45a0e049@cakuba.lan>
Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:31:36 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, thomas.lendacky@....com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: rename ndo_setup_tc to ndo_setup_offload

On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:14:04 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> One of the recurring complaints is that we do not have, as a driver
> writer, a central location from which we would be fed offloading rules
> into a NIC. This was brought up again during Netconf'18 in Boston.
> 
> This patch just renames ndo_setup_tc to ndo_setup_offload as a very
> early initial work to prepare for follow up patches that discuss/propose
> unified flow representation for the existing offload programming APIs:
> ethtool_rxnfc, cls_flower, cls_u32 and (probably, not yet upstream)
> conntrack.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>