netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: ethernet: mediatek: mtk_ppe: prefer newly added l2 flows over existing ones

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Message-ID: <ZBtedOG4W28dKAR9@corigine.com>
Date:   Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:00:52 +0100
From:   Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
To:     Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: ethernet: mediatek: mtk_ppe: prefer
 newly added l2 flows over existing ones

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 04:09:25PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 22.03.23 15:00, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 02:36:09PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> > > When a device is roaming between interfaces and a new flow entry is created,
> > > we should assume that its output device is more up to date than whatever
> > > entry existed already.
> > 
> > As per patch 1/2. checkpatch complains that the patch description
> > has lines more than 75 characters long.
> Will do.
> 
> > That aside, this change looks good to me.
> > But I'm wondering if it is fixing a bug.
> > Or just improving something suboptimal (form a user experience POV).
> In my opinion, this is just an improvement, not a bugfix.

Sure, thanks for the clarification.