From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FF17C0650F for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:33:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718A220843 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:33:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727547AbfHNIdD (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Aug 2019 04:33:03 -0400 Received: from relay11.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.231]:59613 "EHLO relay11.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726512AbfHNIdD (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Aug 2019 04:33:03 -0400 Received: from localhost (lfbn-1-17395-211.w86-250.abo.wanadoo.fr [86.250.200.211]) (Authenticated sender: antoine.tenart@bootlin.com) by relay11.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 160A6100003; Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:33:00 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 10:32:59 +0200 From: Antoine Tenart To: Andrew Lunn Cc: Igor Russkikh , Antoine Tenart , "davem@davemloft.net" , "sd@queasysnail.net" , "f.fainelli@gmail.com" , "hkallweit1@gmail.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com" , "alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com" , "allan.nielsen@microchip.com" , "camelia.groza@nxp.com" , Simon Edelhaus , Pavel Belous Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 6/9] net: macsec: hardware offloading infrastructure Message-ID: <20190814083259.GF3200@kwain> References: <20190808140600.21477-1-antoine.tenart@bootlin.com> <20190808140600.21477-7-antoine.tenart@bootlin.com> <20190813085817.GA3200@kwain> <20190813131706.GE15047@lunn.ch> <2e3c2307-d414-a531-26cb-064e05fa01fc@aquantia.com> <20190813162823.GH15047@lunn.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20190813162823.GH15047@lunn.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.1 (2019-06-15) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew, On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 06:28:23PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > It would also be nice to add extra information to the netlink API to > indicate if HW or SW is being used. In other places where we offload > to accelerators we have such additional information. Yes, that would be very nice to have. Thanks! Antoine -- Antoine Ténart, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com