Re: [PATCH net-next,v5 3/4] net: flow_offload: mangle action at byte level

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From: Edward Cree <ecree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:59:22 +0100

> Pedit is supposed to work even in the absence of protocol knowledge in
>  the kernel (e.g. in combination with cls_u32, you can filter and mangle
>  traffic in a completely new protocol), you're turning it into Yet
>  Another Ossified TCP/IP Monoculture.  This is not the direction the
>  networking offloads community is trying to move in.

Agreed, the proposed changes are taking the code and interfaces in
completely the wrong direction.

I agree with Jakub and Edward on all of these points.



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