From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Google-Smtp-Source: AIpwx481SNOy+oTmZrnp10IXnv10vje3/8StS4RxjFHCNSkVgNFnmBAMc5fmVOV64LCSV9gGiatK ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1522928862; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=JZotSow/WOE6ZNk/LxRv7YhNQl+97b4oPeLHgKhfjfNCcollrU7gqhzkVw8H1GQh+j hTNNK2iIdzVLij/9syynQJG6/QvrIdTsWb9Hs5Qlp/Mt5pFOD8wZun52y81ozjsCcU6z ZcqeEQ/Iog3cCMYLuhQF2Xzr8kLLN8SW037b1ijdKTjGw2F5chSDug5zVd8lD8QVBMhC x7RU5seoABqFaDmyLJXPdtRAs5DUMgSiaO0A/bKix4GOW4I3uHVFr4wj8y1hNiVzOHab hEYpTdz7SjL8ky9FJRYFVrRCq2tT+IJEpErAXWdKJfvNU9K5cpiwaFrhEwMFAmUyOdsC QJug== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=user-agent:in-reply-to:content-disposition:mime-version:references :message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:dkim-signature :arc-authentication-results; bh=WxMunxcCdB/i/q2YiGXz8qa7M8GavVh5yB7vREIBOkg=; b=oedNxrS4VF7uzvrQDKuUnGHi0N9PXQ977k/lmwD/5sY14M42SGiYvRKSE+K6+cCtXQ T3LgF4T1jp/fv7E0kzFmeXX6JvWLmNoG9XoMnX9B8w938IwFMlFNrgrknegY1zU5sg5C yQfBkPUGApihNwJ3p9Jm2tY+ixy1kw9aPPovF+N7gXi94L4kJ6Eeg4LKpP19bfVYDlGI JENpHTGicrMaVJdXBu/wLL7C5FlNgoW3bie6ApuqCPNQu4A91/6M7qvfMLQQbcrb7JPQ PscvGAUPDYlRWsWuJ7RNPlBPzOBeDxX6aAWkWcRWyJ11QqU1UwCK3M7GaFWIxPXB+Lgk DOAw== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@lunn.ch header.s=20171124 header.b=shj7mY3n; spf=pass (google.com: domain of andrew@lunn.ch designates 185.16.172.187 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=andrew@lunn.ch Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@lunn.ch header.s=20171124 header.b=shj7mY3n; spf=pass (google.com: domain of andrew@lunn.ch designates 185.16.172.187 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=andrew@lunn.ch Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 13:47:36 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn To: Laurentiu Tudor Cc: Stuart Yoder , Arnd Bergmann , Ioana Ciornei , gregkh , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ruxandra Ioana Ciocoi Radulescu , Razvan Stefanescu , Roy Pledge , Networking Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] bus: fsl-mc: add restool userspace support Message-ID: <20180405114736.GA12178@lunn.ch> References: <20180404010549.GA12443@lunn.ch> <20180404124246.GA20869@lunn.ch> <5AC5FAA8.80409@nxp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5AC5FAA8.80409@nxp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox: INBOX X-GMAIL-THRID: =?utf-8?q?1595743497041548891?= X-GMAIL-MSGID: =?utf-8?q?1596906654775464019?= X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 10:30:01AM +0000, Laurentiu Tudor wrote: > Hello, > > My 2c below. > > On 04/04/2018 03:42 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote: > >> I hear you. It is more complicated this way...having all these individual > >> objects vs just a single "bundle" of them that represents a NIC. But, that's > >> the way the DPAA2 hardware is, and we're implementing kernel support for > >> the hardware as it is. > > > > Hi Stuart > > > > I see we are not making any progress here. > > > > So what i suggest is you post the kernel code and configuration tool > > concept to netdev for a full review. You want reviews from David > > Miller, Jiri Pirko, Jakub Kicinski, David Ahern, etc. > > > > I think that the discussion steered too much towards networking related > topics, while this ioctl doesn't have much to do with networking. Hi Laurentiu So i can use switchdev without it? I can modprobe the switchdev driver, all the physical interfaces will appear, and i can use ip addr add etc. I do not need to use a user space tool at all in order to use the network functionality? Andrew