Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 1/5] net: add a common function to compute features from lowers devices

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On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 07:42:48PM +0200, Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
> > +	dev->gso_partial_features = gso_partial_features;
> > +	dev->vlan_features = vlan_features;
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_XFRM_OFFLOAD
> > +	dev->hw_enc_features |= xfrm_features;
> > +#endif
> 
> I'm not completely sure we want xfrm_features for upper devices other
> than bonding [1], but this will get overwritten immediately
> afterwards:
> 
> > +	dev->hw_enc_features = enc_features | NETIF_F_GSO_ENCAP_ALL |
> > +				    NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX |
> > +				    NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_TX;

Ah.. right. I need more careful when change the order.

> 
> 
> [1] those lines in bond_compute_features were only added alongside
> bond IPsec offload, see 18cb261afd7b ("bonding: support hardware
> encryption offload to slaves")
> 
> but AFAIU hw_enc_features is only used as a mask over dev->features so
> it shouldn't be a problem to have xfrm stuff in bridge/team as well

In this case I will keep this setting. Putting the feature compute to
another function will violate our original intention of putting
the feature compute together as much as possible.

Thanks
Hangbin




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