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Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 0/4] introduce infrastructure for support of
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On 03/27/14 at 09:41am, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 2014-03-27 7:10 GMT-07:00 Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>:
> > So there are no reasons
> > to force user to configure this port manually, and automatic
> > configuration of CPU switch port without exporting them as netdev
> > seems as good approach.
> 
> Well, maybe that's the answer, since we know that e.g: sw1p3 is always
> connected to e.g: eth0, we could create an automatic bridge between
> those two, this would keep the netdev exposure to user-space, but an
> user would not have to know about that specific detail to get things
> to work.

I like this approach. It provides visibility without additional
configuration burdgen.