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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 0/4] introduce infrastructure for support of
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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:16:48 +0100
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Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:12:07PM CET, jhs@mojatatu.com wrote:
>On 03/27/14 06:50, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:39:59AM CET, jhs@mojatatu.com wrote:
>
>>In my patchset, this is only for dummyswitch. The dummy switch driver
>>implementation. I provides a possibility for user to create these using
>>iplink.
>>
>
>Understood, but what is the motivation? ;-> Do you see some vendor
>SDK creating these?

No, dummyswitch is just for testing purposes and showing the swtichdev
API use. Nothing else. I most probably will not add it to the final
patchset proposal.

>
>cheers,
>jamal