Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:46:53 -0800 Kiran Kella wrote: > > This is achieved by propagating the psp_dev from the lower device > > to the upper devices in the device stack via a netdevice notifier. > > The lowest device owns the psp_dev pointer while the upper devices > > just borrow the pointer. When the lower device is unlinked, the > > borrowed pointer is cleared in the upper device. > > Assumption being that psp_dev is set on the lowest device before > > any upper devices are stacked on that lowest device. > > As I mentioned in the other thread I'd like to establish some clear > expectation on where psd propagates automatically and where it doesn't. > I don't want to see a stream of patches that say "fix propagating PSP > onto X upper". And conversely report saying "PSP got propagated but > it doesn't actually work" (macvlan in bridge mode etc). > > Hence my preference was to require the user who created the device > to propagate PSP. Willem, WDYT?
Can you give a bit more detail what you have in mind? An explicit user (netlink) API to associate a psp_dev with a net_device?
