any benefits to getting away from mirred?

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From: Lukas Wunner <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 12:11 AM
Subject: [PATCH net-next] ifb: Depend on netfilter alternatively to tc
To: David S. Miller <[email protected]>, Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>, Jozsef Kadlecsik
<[email protected]>, Florian Westphal <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, Jamal Hadi Salim <[email protected]>, Cong
Wang <[email protected]>, Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>, Daniel
Borkmann <[email protected]>, Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>


IFB originally depended on NET_CLS_ACT for traffic redirection.
But since v4.5, that may be achieved with NFT_FWD_NETDEV as well.

Fixes: 39e6dea28adc ("netfilter: nf_tables: add forward expression to
the netdev family")
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> # v4.5+: bcfabee1afd9: netfilter:
nft_fwd_netdev: allow to redirect to ifb via ingress
Cc: <[email protected]> # v4.5+
---
 drivers/net/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index f37b1c56f7c4..dd335ae1122b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ config NET_FC

 config IFB
        tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support"
-       depends on NET_CLS_ACT
+       depends on NET_ACT_MIRRED || NFT_FWD_NETDEV
        select NET_REDIRECT
        help
          This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of
--
2.31.1



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