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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 08:46:08 +0100 From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: pablo@...filter.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, thomas.lendacky@....com, f.fainelli@...il.com, ariel.elior@...ium.com, michael.chan@...adcom.com, santosh@...lsio.com, madalin.bucur@....com, yisen.zhuang@...wei.com, salil.mehta@...wei.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, tariqt@...lanox.com, saeedm@...lanox.com, jiri@...lanox.com, idosch@...lanox.com, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, peppe.cavallaro@...com, grygorii.strashko@...com, andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com, alexandre.torgue@...com, joabreu@...opsys.com, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com, ganeshgr@...lsio.com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12 net-next,v2] add flow_rule infrastructure Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 06:16:40PM CET, davem@...emloft.net wrote: >From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> >Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:39:12 +0100 > >> If later on the netfilter code will use it, through another >> ndo/notifier/whatever, that is side a nice side-effect in my >> opinion. > >Netfilter HW offloading is the main motivation of these changes. > >You can try to spin it any way you like, but I think this is pretty >clear. > >Would the author of these changes be even be remotely interested in >this "cleanup" in areas of code he has never been involved in if that >were not the case? No, but of course. I'm just saying that the cleanup is nice and handy even if the code would never be used by netfilter. Therefore I think the info is irrelevant for the review. Anyway, I get your point. > >I think it is very dishonest to portray the situation differently. > >Thank you.
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