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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/3] switchdev: support stp updates on
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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 07:37:49 +0100
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Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:32:13PM CET, davem@davemloft.net wrote:
>From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
>Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 20:17:22 +0100
>
>> Does that make sense? I think it is better just pick what we want to
>> support now and implement it there. That makes things clearer and
>> confusion-prone.
>
>You can't even say whether it makes sense or not, you yourself
>even have to ask.
>
>Again, I don't want to design our interfaces for potential needs,
>I want to design them for actually known needs.
>
>We'll deal with the discovered exceptions on an as-needed basis,
>not from the beginning.


Fair enough...