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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:03:01 +0200 From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> To: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, nhorman@...driver.com, andy@...yhouse.net, tgraf@...g.ch, dborkman@...hat.com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com, jesse@...ira.com, pshelar@...ira.com, azhou@...ira.com, stephen@...workplumber.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, vyasevic@...hat.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, john.r.fastabend@...el.com, edumazet@...gle.com, jhs@...atatu.com, sfeldma@...ulusnetworks.com, f.fainelli@...il.com, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, linville@...driver.com, dev@...nvswitch.org, jasowang@...hat.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, ryazanov.s.a@...il.com, buytenh@...tstofly.org, aviadr@...lanox.com, nbd@...nwrt.org, alexei.starovoitov@...il.com, Neil.Jerram@...aswitch.com, ronye@...lanox.com Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 03/12] net: introduce generic switch devices support Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 06:41:23PM CEST, ben@...adent.org.uk wrote: >On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 18:18 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> The goal of this is to provide a possibility to suport various switch >> chips. Drivers should implement relevant ndos to do so. Now there is a >> couple of ndos defines: >> - for getting physical switch id is in place. >> - for work with flows. >> >> Note that user can use random port netdevice to access the switch. >[...] > >Why isn't the switch treated as a real device (not necessarily a net >device) that's included in the device model and that the port devices >refer to? That is certainly possible. But so far, there is no need for it. But I guess that it's probably a good idea at least to put it into sysfs structure. Noted, thanks Ben. > >Ben. > >-- >Ben Hutchings >If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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