From: Scott Feldman <scofeldm@cisco.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: <davem@davemloft.net>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next,1/2] add iovnl netlink support
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:01:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C7F4DFD3.2A4CC%scofeldm@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100421221806.GD28829@x200.localdomain>
On 4/21/10 3:18 PM, "Chris Wright" <chrisw@redhat.com> wrote:
>> The set_mac_vlan that Scott's patch adds seems to implement 1a), as far
>> as I can tell. Interestingly, this is not actually implemented in
>> the enic driver in patch 2/2. So if we all agree that this is out of the
>> scope of iovnl, let's just remove it from the interface and find another
>> way for it (ethtool, iplink, ..., as listed above).
>
> Scott, any objection? At least a way to keep moving forward on the port
> profile bit.
Yes, that's fine with me, port-profile bit is the most important part.
>> Note that we still need to pass the MAC address and VLAN ID (or a list
>> of these) to the external switch, my point is just that this should be
>> separate from enforcing it in the hypervisor.
>
> Yup, we should focus on reconciling the diff of enic vs vpd port profile
> needs.
-scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-22 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-19 19:18 [net-next PATCH 0/2] iovnl netlink ops + enic dynamic vnics Scott Feldman
2010-04-19 19:18 ` [net-next PATCH 1/2] add iovnl netlink support Scott Feldman
2010-04-20 13:48 ` [net-next,1/2] " Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-20 14:34 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-20 14:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-20 15:22 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-20 16:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-20 20:26 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-21 13:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-21 16:28 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-21 18:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-20 19:56 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-21 11:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-21 11:42 ` Selective MD5 Checksum Failuers Bijay Singh
2010-04-21 16:18 ` [net-next,1/2] add iovnl netlink support Chris Wright
2010-04-21 17:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-21 18:10 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-21 19:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-21 20:25 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-21 21:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-21 22:48 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-22 6:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-22 17:47 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-22 18:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-22 19:02 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-22 19:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-22 21:03 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-21 23:54 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-22 12:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-22 7:09 ` David Miller
2010-04-21 22:18 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-22 0:01 ` Scott Feldman [this message]
2010-04-21 21:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-22 6:48 ` [net-next PATCH 1/2] " David Miller
2010-04-22 21:23 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-22 23:04 ` David Miller
2010-04-22 23:16 ` eSwitch management Anirban Chakraborty
2010-04-23 0:47 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-23 1:29 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-23 5:57 ` Anirban Chakraborty
2010-04-23 12:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-23 16:23 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-23 19:00 ` Anirban Chakraborty
2010-04-23 19:44 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-23 21:08 ` Anirban Chakraborty
2010-04-23 23:04 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-24 6:21 ` Anirban Chakraborty
2010-04-22 6:52 ` [net-next PATCH 1/2] add iovnl netlink support David Miller
2010-04-22 10:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-22 10:56 ` David Miller
2010-04-22 11:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-19 19:18 ` [net-next PATCH 2/2] add enic iovnl ops for dynamic vnics Scott Feldman
2010-04-19 21:35 ` [net-next PATCH 0/2] iovnl netlink ops + enic " Chris Wright
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