[PATCH] net/tap: defer qdisc initialisation for rte_flow

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:27:44 +0100
David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:

> qdisc setup is required when using a remote_iface or when creating
> rte_flow rules.
> Otherwise, many applications don't care about it.
> 
> Let's postpone the qdisc init to when it is really needed, that will
> avoid spewing ERR logs for nothing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> ---

Agreed. Should probably mark this with Fixes.
The only AI review feedback was that flow_init should be bool not int;
but the existing code uses int for flags so OK.

Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>