netdev - Re: [PATCH xfrm-next v2 2/6] xfrm: allow state full offload mode

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Message-ID: <20220822080108.GE2602992@gauss3.secunet.de>
Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:01:08 +0200
From:   Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
CC:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Raed Salem <raeds@...dia.com>,
        ipsec-devel <devel@...ux-ipsec.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH xfrm-next v2 2/6] xfrm: allow state full offload mode

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 04:28:12PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 12:12:20PM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 11:59:23AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>
> > > 
> > > Allow users to configure xfrm states with full offload mode.
> > > The full mode must be requested both for policy and state, and
> > > such requires us to do not implement fallback.
> > > 
> > > We explicitly return an error if requested full mode can't
> > > be configured.
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Raed Salem <raeds@...dia.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>
> > 
> > This one needs to be ACKed by the driver maintainers.
> 
> Why? Only crypto is supported in upstream kernel.

Because it touches code hat is under their maintainance.
They should at least be CCed on this patch.