From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
jhs@mojatatu.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com, roprabhu@cisco.com,
jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
mst@redhat.com, chrisw@redhat.com, gregory.v.rose@intel.com,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, sri@us.ibm.com, chealy@imsco-us.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v0 0/5] Series short description
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:51:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120319195147.23c26657@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F67F04E.8060800@intel.com>
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:49:50 -0700
John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> wrote:
> On 3/19/2012 5:35 PM, David Miller wrote:
> > From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
> > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:27:00 -0700
> >
> >> Dave, its probably fine to push this to 3.5 then.
> >
> > Fair enough.
>
> Stephen, please let me know if you see any issues though
> because without these we have no way to forward packets
> correctly in the embedded switch. So we can't really
> use SR-IOV and virtual interfaces together correctly. And
> the macvlan device in passthru mode is putting the device
> in promiscuous mode which isn't great either.
>
> .John
I am more worried about evaluating ABI compatibility with older
utilities.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-20 2:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-19 6:51 [net-next PATCH v0 0/5] Series short description John Fastabend
2012-03-19 6:51 ` [net-next PATCH v0 2/5] net: addr_list: add exclusive dev_uc_add John Fastabend
2012-03-25 13:07 ` Roopa Prabhu
2012-03-19 6:52 ` [net-next PATCH v0 3/5] net: add fdb generic dump routine John Fastabend
2012-03-25 13:09 ` Roopa Prabhu
2012-03-26 21:41 ` John Fastabend
2012-03-19 6:52 ` [net-next PATCH v0 4/5] ixgbe: enable FDB netdevice ops John Fastabend
2012-03-19 22:46 ` Jeff Kirsher
2012-03-19 6:52 ` [net-next PATCH v0 5/5] ixgbe: allow RAR table to be updated in promisc mode John Fastabend
2012-03-19 22:44 ` Jeff Kirsher
2012-03-19 22:38 ` [net-next PATCH v0 0/5] Series short description David Miller
2012-03-19 22:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-03-20 0:27 ` John Fastabend
2012-03-20 0:35 ` David Miller
2012-03-20 2:49 ` John Fastabend
2012-03-20 2:51 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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