netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] net: VSI: Add virtual station interface support

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Message-ID: <20130920231259.GA31479@neilslaptop.think-freely.org>
Date:	Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:12:59 -0400
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] net: VSI: Add virtual station interface support


John-
     Sorry for not copying your orgional patch into your email, but I apparently
erased this email prior to fully reading it.  At any rate, as we discussed the
other day, I think this idea is great, but it would benefit from being
implemented using macvlans rather than a new link type.  If we can set a
hardware flag in the underlying driver to indicate support for hardware
forwarding, we can skip the macvlan soft forwarding, and just transmit directly.
It should save us needing to create a whole new link type that is so simmilar to
one we already have.

     I'm back home now, so I can start looking at this if you like on monday.

Best
Neil


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