netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net/mlx4_en: Enable open-lldp DCB support

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Message-ID: <515E82C6.9080406@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:52:38 -0700
From:	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
To:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>
CC:	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagig@...lanox.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, amirv@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net/mlx4_en: Enable open-lldp DCB support

On 04/05/2013 12:15 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> Agree it doesn't work without this patch but we can fix it in user
>> space. This has the nice benefit of letting lldpad work with mlx4 on
>> older kernels. In general I think its easier to update user space then
>> the kernel for most users. I'll send you a lldpad patch in a few moments.
>
> So to be sure we're on the same page, what we should do is enhance
> mlx4_en_dcbnl_getdcbx() routine to also return DCB_CAP_DCBX_HOST and

Right I think this is a better approach in the long run.

> work with your user space patch? sounds nice, except for what happens
> if people run with older versions of lldpad..
>

Well it won't work. But on the flip side all your older drivers _will_
work with the new daemon. My working assumption is for most users its
easier to upgrade a user space pkg than a kernel. And the simpler we
can keep the kernel code the better. Oh and also if there is a bug in
user space we shouldn't fix it with kernel code.

> Or.
>

-- 
John Fastabend         Intel Corporation
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