From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamal Hadi Salim Subject: Re: [patch iproute2 4/6] bridge/link: add new offload hwmode swdev Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:23:14 -0500 Message-ID: <54806042.5010007@mojatatu.com> References: <1417683438-10935-1-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> <1417683438-10935-5-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, andy@greyhouse.net, tgraf@suug.ch, dborkman@redhat.com, ogerlitz@mellanox.com, jesse@nicira.com, pshelar@nicira.com, azhou@nicira.com, ben@decadent.org.uk, stephen@networkplumber.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, vyasevic@redhat.com, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, john.r.fastabend@intel.com, edumazet@google.com, sfeldma@gmail.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, linville@tuxdriver.com, jasowang@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com, buytenh@wantstofly.org, aviadr@mellanox.com, nbd@openwrt.org, alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com, Neil.Jerram@metaswitch.com, ronye@mellanox.com, simon.horman@netronome.com, alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com, john.ronciak@intel.com, mleitner@redhat.com, shrijeet@gmail.com, gospo@cumulusnetworks.com, bcrl@kvack.org, hemal@broadcom.com To: Jiri Pirko , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-ie0-f170.google.com ([209.85.223.170]:64625 "EHLO mail-ie0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753402AbaLDNXU (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2014 08:23:20 -0500 Received: by mail-ie0-f170.google.com with SMTP id rd18so15705357iec.29 for ; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:23:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1417683438-10935-5-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/04/14 03:57, Jiri Pirko wrote: > From: Scott Feldman > > To support full-featured switch devices offloading bridge funtionality, > add new hwmode 'swdev'. Like 'vepa' and 'veb', 'swdev' indicated bridge > port functionality is being offloaded to hardware. > Unhappy with the name swdev .. Ok, go ahead and beat up on me. cheers, jamal