From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Pirko Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 17:14:04 +0200 Message-ID: <20160427151336.GB1962@nanopsycho.orion> References: <1461749838-4613-1-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> <20160427095615.GA27071@breakpoint.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Nicolas Dichtel , davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Florian Westphal Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f52.google.com ([74.125.82.52]:35106 "EHLO mail-wm0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753198AbcD0POI (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:14:08 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f52.google.com with SMTP id e201so43607962wme.0 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 08:14:07 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160427095615.GA27071@breakpoint.cc> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:56:15AM CEST, fw@strlen.de wrote: >Nicolas Dichtel 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.