netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 09/16] dsa: dsa: Split up creating/destroying of DSA and CPU ports

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 27 May 2016 22:01:46 +0200
From:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>, Bryan.Whitehead@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 09/16] dsa: dsa: Split up creating/destroying of DSA
 and CPU ports

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 03:25:47PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Hi Andrew, Florian,
> 
> I suggest to use this RFC to agree on a consistent and robust API for
> the DSA layer. Some functions have non-intuitive names or signatures.

Nope.

What is important is getting this patchset accepted and merged, so
people can write drivers using it.

Changes like this can come later, since hopefully all changes like
this are internal. They don't affect the drivers, or the API to the
core.

	Andrew