From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: roopa <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>,
sfeldma@gmail.com, jhs@mojatatu.com, bcrl@kvack.org,
john.fastabend@gmail.com, stephen@networkplumber.org,
vyasevic@redhat.com, ronen.arad@intel.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
shm@cumulusnetworks.com, gospo@cumulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/5] netdev: introduce new NETIF_F_HW_NETFUNC_OFFLOAD feature flag for switch device offloads
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:05:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150123190518.GP2065@nanopsycho.orion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150123175654.GB25374@casper.infradead.org>
Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 06:56:54PM CET, tgraf@suug.ch wrote:
>On 01/23/15 at 07:48am, roopa wrote:
>> On 1/23/15, 1:44 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> >How about rather "HW_DATAPATH_OFFLOAD"? Feels more accurate. By the
>> >name, I still cannot understand what NETFUNC should mean.
>>
>> It was supposed to mean 'network function offload'. sure, will consider
>> HW_DATAPATH_OFFLOAD
>> or if anybody has other suggestions.
>
>I'm still fascinated that the description says 'for all switch asic
>offloads', 'switch drivers', 'switch ports' but we try very hard to
>come up with a different name ;-)
+1
But we'll see in future. I bet that "switch" will stick.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-23 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-23 4:33 [PATCH net-next v3 1/5] netdev: introduce new NETIF_F_HW_NETFUNC_OFFLOAD feature flag for switch device offloads roopa
2015-01-23 9:44 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-01-23 15:48 ` roopa
2015-01-23 17:56 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-23 19:05 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2015-01-23 23:09 ` roopa
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