On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Hadar Hen Zion
<had...@dev.mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com> wrote:
>>> On 16-09-25 10:08 AM, Hadar Hen Zion wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Currently the created tc actions list is reversed against the order
>>>> set by the user.
>>>> Change the actions list order to be the same as was set by the user.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Did something break? It seems to matter most for dumping. But even that
>>> didnt breaking. Looking at the latest net tree, i tried:
>>>
>>
>> The reason is we use action->order as an nested attribute, so
>> the order in the list doesn't matter, only action->order itself matters.
>
> The order in the list matters for offload drivers who use the
> "tcf_exts_to_list" function and action->order parameter isn't usable
> for them.
> Why not keeping the actions in the same order as the user? isn't it
> more elegant?

I don't object this patch since it affects offloading, I just explained
why it doesn't affect dumping.

Please add this to your changelog, to make it obvious.

Thanks!

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