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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:55:06 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 17:14:04 +0200

> Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:56:15AM CEST, fw@strlen.de wrote:
>>Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> wrote:
>>> This patch adds the support of the 6WIND SHULTI switch. It is a software
>>> switch doing L2 forwarding.
>>> 
>>> This first version implements the minimum needed to get the device working.
>>> It also implements, via switchdev and rtnetlink, bridge forwarding offload,
>>> including FDB static entries, FDB learning and FDB ageing.
>>
>>How is this different from net/bridge?
>>How is this different from openvswitch?
> 
> The difference is that it this tries to allow userspace crap to mirror
> setting user does for bridge/ovs. Basically this looks to me like an
> attempt to enable userspace SDKs and such.

+1

There is no way I'm applying this.