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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next v5 06/15] net: macsec: add nla support for changing the offloading selection
Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 04:20:48PM CET, antoine.tenart@bootlin.com wrote:
>Hello Jiri,
>
>On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 04:02:02PM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>
>> I wonder, did you consider having MACSEC_OFFLOAD_ATTR_TYPE attribute
>> passed during the macsec device creation (to macsec_newlink), so the
>> device is either created "offloded" or not? Looks like an extra step.
>> Or do you see a scenario one would change "offload" setting on fly?
>> If not, I don't see any benefit in having this as a separate command.
>
>That would be possible as well. When we discussed offloading selection
>we thought allowing the user to fallback to another offloading mode when
>a rule or a set of rules isn't supported by a given device would be
>useful, even though updating the offloading selection at runtime isn't
>fully transparent for now (this would be a nice follow-up).

Okay. Thanks!

>
>Thanks,
>Antoine
>
>--
>Antoine Ténart, Bootlin
>Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
>https://bootlin.com

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