On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 10:03 AM, David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Alexander Duyck <redacted>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 00:24:55 -0800

quoted

Still, hard blocking this isn't necessarily going to push the
vendors to change their ways.

Pushing back is different from blocking entirely.

Sorry.  I had the mistaken impression that you were planning to block
this entirely based on earlier comments.

That means I'm going to be very difficult and make a lot of noise
until I see the message has seeped in.

It doesn't mean that I won't allow a means to use existing hardware
offloads.  You'll just have to bear with me, be patient, and survive
my tantrum on this matter.

I'm only really interested in what options the customers has in order
to get this all configured.  As long as there eventually ends up being
some path forward I'll be good with whatever ends up happening, though
my preference would be to see some option available in the kernel.

- Alex