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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com>
Cc: ivecera@redhat.com, jiri@resnulli.us, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com, ashevchenko@quantenna.com,
	smaksimenko@quantenna.com, dlebed@quantenna.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] bridge: initialize port flags with switchdev defaults
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 08:32:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180310083234.47db5f06@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180310030308.12947-2-igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com>

On Fri,  9 Mar 2018 19:03:04 -0800
Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com> wrote:

> Default bridge port flags for switchdev devices can be different from
> what is used in bridging core. Get default value from switchdev itself
> on port initialization.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com>
> ---

Yes hardware devices may come it with different default values.
But the user experience on Linux needs to be consistent.

Instead, it makes more sense to me for each device driver using switchdev
to program to the values that it sees in the bridge.

Please revise this.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-10 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-10  3:03 [PATCH net-next 0/5] Switchdev: flooding offload option Igor Mitsyanko
2018-03-10  3:03 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] bridge: initialize port flags with switchdev defaults Igor Mitsyanko
2018-03-10 16:30   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-12 18:44     ` Igor Mitsyanko
2018-03-10 16:32   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-03-12 19:03     ` Igor Mitsyanko
2018-03-10  3:03 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] bridge: propagate BR_ flags updates through sysfs to switchdev Igor Mitsyanko
2018-03-10 16:38   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-12 20:07     ` Igor Mitsyanko
2018-03-10  3:03 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 3/5] bridge: allow switchdev port to handle flooding by itself Igor Mitsyanko
2018-03-10 16:55   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-12 23:00     ` Igor Mitsyanko
2018-03-13  1:11       ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-13 14:41         ` Roopa Prabhu
2018-03-10  3:03 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 4/5] bridge: provide sysfs and netlink interface to set BR_FLOOD_OFFLOAD Igor Mitsyanko
2018-03-10  3:03 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 5/5] bridge: verify "HW only" flags can't be set without HW support Igor Mitsyanko
2018-03-10 22:08 ` [PATCH net-next 0/5] Switchdev: flooding offload option Andrew Lunn
2018-03-12 23:08   ` Igor Mitsyanko

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