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From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
To: Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, amirv@mellanox.com, ronye@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Control VF link state
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 14:43:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <519BEA6B.4080600@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZOPZJpPjqxX__+P0eN=XatC8pzY7zJZBQcc3U6tjQycdKB5g@mail.gmail.com>

[...]

>> The risk I see with extensible operations (and which has occurred with
>> many ethtool operations) is that drivers may quietly ignore the elements
>> they don't implement.  So either (1) add yet another specific operation
>> or (2) define a general VF setter, require drivers to set some flags
>> that indicate which VF attributes are settable, and check the flags in
>> rtnetlink.c before calling into the driver.
>
> both (1) and (2) makes sense to me, I am more leaned to (2), John, do
> we have a go from your side to post V1 for net-next? which of the
> options makes more sense to you?
>
> Or.
>

Either is fine if you prefer (2) that works for me. I'll get it
working with ixgbe after you post it.

.John

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-21 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-08 13:45 [PATCH RFC 0/2] Control VF link state Or Gerlitz
2013-05-08 13:45 ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] net/core: Add netlink directives to control " Or Gerlitz
2013-05-08 16:02   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-06-09  9:51     ` Or Gerlitz
2013-05-08 13:45 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] net/mlx4: Add vf link state support Or Gerlitz
2013-05-08 13:45 ` [PATCH RFC iproute2] Add VF link state control Or Gerlitz
2013-05-08 16:17   ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-05-08 16:24     ` Dan Williams
2013-05-08 16:44       ` John Fastabend
2013-05-08 17:31         ` Or Gerlitz
2013-05-09  8:34           ` Or Gerlitz
2013-05-09 15:24 ` [PATCH RFC 0/2] Control VF link state Ben Hutchings
2013-05-09 23:17   ` Or Gerlitz
2013-05-10  0:34     ` Ben Hutchings
2013-05-12 21:48       ` Or Gerlitz
2013-05-14 17:12         ` Ben Hutchings
2013-05-14 19:59           ` John Fastabend
2013-05-20 20:06       ` Or Gerlitz
2013-05-20 20:37         ` Ben Hutchings
2013-05-21 20:12           ` Or Gerlitz
2013-05-21 21:43             ` John Fastabend [this message]
2013-06-09 13:27               ` Or Gerlitz

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