netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 08/16] net/devlink: Add E-Switch mode control

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Date:	Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:24:58 +0300
From:	Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Cc:	"Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hadar Hen-Zion <hadarh@...lanox.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>,
	Tal Anker <Ankertal@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 08/16] net/devlink: Add E-Switch mode control

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> wrote:

> Why not to have 2 modes:

> 1) lagacy - the current solution, blackbox eswitch, undefined behaviour
> 2) switchdev - with representors, all features possible as on physical
> switches, whitebox eswitch configured using standard tools?

yep, this makes sense to me. I will rename the offloads mode to be
called switchdev
and we'll respin V2 with few more small fixes and clarification on the
change log of this patch