From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jiri@resnulli.us, fw@strlen.de, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:07:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160427100745.29976fbc@samsung9> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160427.125506.1088576804354580011.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:55:06 -0400 (EDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> 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.
Also it has a bunch of device specific generic netlink which was
a red flag for me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-27 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-27 9:37 [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-27 9:50 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-04-27 9:56 ` Florian Westphal
2016-04-27 15:14 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-04-27 15:38 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-27 15:54 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-04-27 16:55 ` David Miller
2016-04-27 17:07 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2016-04-28 12:00 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-28 11:59 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-28 14:05 ` Or Gerlitz
2016-04-28 15:54 ` David Miller
2016-04-29 8:48 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-05-01 15:27 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-05-01 19:53 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-05-01 15:24 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-04-27 16:34 ` David Miller
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