From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamal Hadi Salim Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3 00/12] Flow API Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 07:34:41 -0500 Message-ID: <54C39161.9030300@mojatatu.com> References: <20150120202404.1741.8658.stgit@nitbit.x32> <20150122125246.GA4486@salvia> <20150122133713.GA25797@casper.infradead.org> <20150122140022.GA5674@salvia> <54C11094.2000807@mojatatu.com> <20150122151316.GB25797@casper.infradead.org> <54C11703.7030702@mojatatu.com> <20150122153727.GC25797@casper.infradead.org> <20150122164951.GA3417@salvia> <20150122174445.GD25797@casper.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: John Fastabend , simon.horman@netronome.com, sfeldma@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, gerlitz.or@gmail.com, andy@greyhouse.net, ast@plumgrid.com, Jiri Pirko To: Thomas Graf , Pablo Neira Ayuso Return-path: Received: from mail-ie0-f175.google.com ([209.85.223.175]:51644 "EHLO mail-ie0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752051AbbAXMeo (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2015 07:34:44 -0500 Received: by mail-ie0-f175.google.com with SMTP id ar1so1829698iec.6 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 04:34:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20150122174445.GD25797@casper.infradead.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/22/15 12:44, Thomas Graf wrote: > On 01/22/15 at 05:49pm, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > > You can achieve the exact same thing with an out of tree tc action, > classifier or even a new link type. Nothing prevents an out of tree > driver to register a new rtnetlink link type and do vendor specific > crap. > They are not the same. The API lowers the barrier immensely; refer to my response to John. And we are actually handing it to them. From an equivalance perspective: Youd have to convince Dave to allow all those TOE vendors to get in with their direct hardware APIs (if those guys are still around). cheers, jamal