Re: [net-next, v2 1/2] psp: Support for transmit on logical device when the underlying transport device supports PSP.

From: Kiran Kella

Date: Thu Feb 26 2026 - 10:39:50 EST


On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 7:41 PM Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 2/26/26 6:46 AM, Kiran Kella wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 2:28 AM Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> The lack of support for netns is a bit of a gap for this feature. It may
> >> make sense to see if what was posted in
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260224002410.1553838-1-weibunny@xxxxxx/
> >> is sufficient for your use case, as it handles cases where upper devices
> >> are in a different netns from psd->main_netdev.
> > Thanks. Went through the changes in
> > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260224002410.1553838-1-weibunny@xxxxxx/
> > It is sufficient for my use case too, although it specifically
> > addresses the cross-netns virtual devices use case.
> > But the same net-ns stacked devices like VLANs can be handled with
> > this patch implicitly, without user intervention through dev-assoc.
> > I think both approaches can co-exist without conflict.
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> I agree they can co-exist, and automatically propagating psp devices is
> useful. I was just pointing out that support for upper devices will
> eventually need to deal with netns, because when I looked at this patch
> things like ipvlan and macvlan came to mind.

Ack