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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf-G/eBtMaohhA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC v2 0/6] introduce infrastructure
 for support of switch chip datapath
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:00:12 +0000
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On 03/27/14 at 07:17am, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> On 03/27/14 07:02, Thomas Graf wrote:
> >But wouldn't you want to introduce an additional ndo to
> >cover these?
> 
> We could - I just find it distracting at the current thread
> of discussion (the openwrt folks for example dont need any
> or most of that).
> 
> >What speaks against going with what Jiri proposes and adjust
> >& extend as needed as we go along?
> >
> 
> I was hoping we knock these issue one at a time. The noise right
> now is around ports and stacking of ports etc. Which in my
> opinion is an easier topic to handle.
> Jiri's patches on this can always come back in the discussion
> later.

It seems like we reached pretty good consensus on the model. What
remaining issues do you see with the port model proposed in v2?