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Subject: Re: [patch net-next v3 02/17] net: make vid as a parameter for
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:14:17 +0000
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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?