From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Lunn Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] bus: fsl-mc: add restool userspace support Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 13:47:36 +0200 Message-ID: <20180405114736.GA12178@lunn.ch> References: <20180404010549.GA12443@lunn.ch> <20180404124246.GA20869@lunn.ch> <5AC5FAA8.80409@nxp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Stuart Yoder , Arnd Bergmann , Ioana Ciornei , gregkh , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ruxandra Ioana Ciocoi Radulescu , Razvan Stefanescu , Roy Pledge , Networking To: Laurentiu Tudor Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5AC5FAA8.80409@nxp.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 10:30:01AM +0000, Laurentiu Tudor wrote: > Hello, > > My 2c below. > > On 04/04/2018 03:42 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote: > >> I hear you. It is more complicated this way...having all these individual > >> objects vs just a single "bundle" of them that represents a NIC. But, that's > >> the way the DPAA2 hardware is, and we're implementing kernel support for > >> the hardware as it is. > > > > Hi Stuart > > > > I see we are not making any progress here. > > > > So what i suggest is you post the kernel code and configuration tool > > concept to netdev for a full review. You want reviews from David > > Miller, Jiri Pirko, Jakub Kicinski, David Ahern, etc. > > > > I think that the discussion steered too much towards networking related > topics, while this ioctl doesn't have much to do with networking. Hi Laurentiu So i can use switchdev without it? I can modprobe the switchdev driver, all the physical interfaces will appear, and i can use ip addr add etc. I do not need to use a user space tool at all in order to use the network functionality? Andrew