From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: roopa@cumulusnetworks.com Subject: [PATCH net-next v5 0/3] remove bridge mode BRIDGE_MODE_SWDEV Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 14:04:18 -0800 Message-ID: <1418076261-24593-1-git-send-email-roopa@cumulusnetworks.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, shm@cumulusnetworks.com, gospo@cumulusnetworks.com, Roopa Prabhu To: jiri@resnulli.us, sfeldma@gmail.com, jhs@mojatatu.com, bcrl@kvack.org, tgraf@suug.ch, john.fastabend@gmail.com, stephen@networkplumber.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, vyasevic@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from ext3.cumulusnetworks.com ([198.211.106.187]:45198 "EHLO ext3.cumulusnetworks.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751794AbaLHWEY (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2014 17:04:24 -0500 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Roopa Prabhu BRIDGE_MODE_SWDEV was introduced to indicate switchdev offloads for bridging from user space (In other words to call into the hw switch port driver directly). But user can use existing BRIDGE_FLAGS_SELF to call into the hw switch port driver today. swdev mode is not required anymore. So, this patch removes it. v4 - v5 incorporate comments - Define BRIDGE_MODE_UNDEF to handle cases where mode is not defined - reverse the order of patches - include patch comments in all patches Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu Roopa Prabhu (3): bridge: new mode flag to indicate mode 'undefined' rocker: remove swdev mode bridge: remove mode 'swdev' drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c | 18 +----------------- include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h | 2 +- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 10 ++++++++-- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) -- 1.7.10.4