netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next V2 07/17] net/mlx5: Add MACsec offload Tx command support

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Date:   Tue, 20 Sep 2022 10:14:25 +0200
From:   Antoine Tenart <atenart@...nel.org>
To:     Raed Salem <raeds@...dia.com>,
        sundeep subbaraya <sundeep.lkml@...il.com>
Cc:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>,
        Lior Nahmanson <liorna@...dia.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>,
        Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>,
        "naveenm@...vell.com" <naveenm@...vell.com>,
        Sunil Kovvuri Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>,
        Geetha sowjanya <gakula@...vell.com>,
        "andrew@...n.ch" <andrew@...n.ch>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next V2 07/17] net/mlx5: Add MACsec offload Tx command support

Quoting Raed Salem (2022-09-19 15:26:26)
> >From: sundeep subbaraya <sundeep.lkml@...il.com>
> >As of now we will send the new driver to do all the init in the
> >prepare phase and commit phase will return 0 always.
> >
> I think it is better to do all the init in commit phase and not in the
> prepare to align with most drivers that already implemented macsec
> offload (both aquantia and mlx5 and most of mscc implementation), this
> will make it easier to deprecate the prepare stage in future refactor
> of the macsec driver in stack.

Yes, please do this.

Thanks,
Antoine