[Bridge] [PATCH net-next 11/18] vxlan: Add netif_is_vxlan()
Jakub Kicinski
jakub.kicinski at netronome.com
Mon Oct 15 18:57:56 UTC 2018
On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 17:18:38 +0000, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> Add the ability to determine whether a netdev is a VxLAN netdev by
> calling the above mentioned function that checks the netdev's private
> flags.
>
> This will allow modules to identify netdev events involving a VxLAN
> netdev and act accordingly. For example, drivers capable of VxLAN
> offload will need to configure the underlying device when a VxLAN netdev
> is being enslaved to an offloaded bridge.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch at mellanox.com>
> Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm at mellanox.com>
Is this preferable over
!strcmp(netdev->rtnl_link_ops->kind, "vxlan")
which is what TC offloads do?
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