Re: [PATCH net-next v5 06/15] net: macsec: add nla support for changing the offloading selection

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).

Thanks,
Antoine

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