Re: [patch net-next v3 02/17] net: make vid as a parameter for ndo_fdb_add/ndo_fdb_del

Florian Fainelli
2014-11-25T22:39:05Z

On 25/11/14 14:14, Thomas Graf wrote:
> On 11/25/14 at 11:28am, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Do the work of parsing NDA_VLAN directly in rtnetlink code, pass simple
>> u16 vid to drivers from there.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
>
> I'm slightly confused ;-)
>
> We both argued that parsing Netlink attributes in the drivers is wrong.
> What happened to the plan of renaming ndo_fdb_ to ndo_neigh_ and
> introducing a non-Netlink in-kernel API for advanced usage by swdev?
>

Not sure I follow you here, the commit message says what it says it
does, are we looking at the same patch?
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Florian