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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 v2] route: label externally offloaded routes
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:01:54 +0100
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Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 05:14:50AM CET, sfeldma@gmail.com wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Andy Gospodarek
><gospo@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:31:34PM -0700, sfeldma@gmail.com wrote:
>>> From: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> v2:
>>>
>>> No clear outcome on polling for choices of "external", "offload", "hw", or
>>> "hardware".  Andy's concern about "external" being confusing for users is
>>> valid.  So, I'm making executive decision to use "external_offload" for label,
>>> as suggested by Jiri.
>>
>> This seems like quite a mouthful.  Just make it 'offload' or 'hardware'
>> so the output of 'ip route show' isn't so long that it will frequently
>> be longer than 80 chars.  Being longer than 80 chars is going to be
>> irritating for _many_ users.
>
>Andy, since you have passion on this topic, would you mind taking it
>from here to get consensus, and post an updated patch, if needed?
>
>I was about to suggest a new made-up work like "keroff" and someday
>the new word is added to Websters .  Daddy, what's "keroff"?  Oh son,
>that means "offloaded from kernel to external device".  Ya, actually,
>that's my vote: keroff.

I like it :)

>
>("koff" was my first choice, but apparently that already has a
>not-so-nice meaning).
>
>-scott