Re: [PATCHv4 net-next 1/4] net: add a common function to compute features from lowers devices

Hi Jiri,
On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 11:40:12AM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:

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+#define VIRTUAL_DEV_VLAN_FEATURES	(NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG | \

I don't like the "virtual" naming. In the past, we always tried to avoid
that for lower-upper devices like bond/team/bridge/others. Soft-device
was the used term. Please let the "virtual" term for vitrualization,
would that be possible?

Sure

How about "master_upper"? This is already widely used to refer to
bond/team/bridge/other master soft devices.

MASTER_UPPER_DEV_VLAN_FEATURES?

I'm not sure if we should avoid using "master" now. Maybe just UPPER_DEV_VLAN_FEATURES?

[..]

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+void netdev_compute_features_from_lowers(struct net_device *dev, bool update_header)

netdev_compute_master_upper_features?

netdev_compute_upper_features?

Thanks
Hangbin