netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v0 0/5] Series short description

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Message-ID: <20120319195147.23c26657@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:51:47 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jhs@...atatu.com,
	bhutchings@...arflare.com, roprabhu@...co.com,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	mst@...hat.com, chrisw@...hat.com, gregory.v.rose@...el.com,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, sri@...ibm.com, chealy@...co-us.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v0 0/5] Series short description

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:49:50 -0700
John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com> wrote:

> On 3/19/2012 5:35 PM, David Miller wrote:
> > From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
> > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:27:00 -0700
> > 
> >> Dave, its probably fine to push this to 3.5 then.
> > 
> > Fair enough.
> 
> Stephen, please let me know if you see any issues though
> because without these we have no way to forward packets
> correctly in the embedded switch. So we can't really
> use SR-IOV and virtual interfaces together correctly. And
> the macvlan device in passthru mode is putting the device
> in promiscuous mode which isn't great either.
> 
> .John

I am more worried about evaluating ABI compatibility with older
utilities.
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