On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 7:21 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > From: Tom Herbert <t...@herbertland.com> > Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 13:53:44 -0800 > >> The bad effect of this model is that it is encourages HW vendors to >> continue implement HW protocol specific support for encapsulations, we >> get so much more benefit if they implement protocol generic >> mechanisms. > > +1
Regardless of what happens in the future, I think the main question is how this relates to the code that is currently present in the tree. We already have NDOs for VXLAN offloading, which is about as protocol specific as you can get. In my mind, this series is strictly an improvement to what is already there - it pulls all hardware offloading code out of the various protocol implementations and VXLAN out of the driver interface. That seems like a pretty nice cleanup to me. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
