netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/3] net/sched: act_pedit: fix action bind logic

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Date:   Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:51:58 -0500
From:   Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>,
        Pedro Tammela <pctammela@...atatu.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, jiri@...nulli.us, davem@...emloft.net,
        edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com, amir@...ai.me,
        dcaratti@...hat.com, willemb@...gle.com, ozsh@...dia.com,
        paulb@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/3] net/sched: act_pedit: fix action bind logic

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 2:36 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2023 17:15:00 +0100 Simon Horman wrote:
> > > > OTOH, perhaps it's a regression wrt the oldest of
> > > > the two patches references below.
> > >
> > > ...because filters and actions are completely separate TC objects.
> > > There shouldn't be actions that can be created independently but can't be
> > > really used.
> >
> > I agree that shouldn't be the case.
> > For me that doesn't make it a bug, but I don't feel strongly about it.
>
> I'm with Simon - this is a long standing problem, and we weren't getting
> any user complaints about this. So I also prefer to route this via
> net-next, without the Fixes tags.

At minimum the pedit is a fix.
The rest is toss-a-coin and put in net-next or net.

cheers,
jamal