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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 06:19:38 -0400
From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 8/9] switchdev: introduce Netlink API
On 09/20/14 04:17, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Yes, that I say. It is needed for flow manipulation, because such api does
> not exist.
Come on Jiri!
The ovs guys are against this and now no *api exists*?
Write a 15 tuple classifier tc classifier and use it. I will be more
than happy to help you. I will get to it when we have basics L2 working
on real devices.
>As I stated earlier, I do not want to use switchdev genl for
> anything other than flow manipulation.
Totally unacceptable in my books. If the OVS guys want some way out
to be able to ride on some vendor sdks then that is their problem.
We shouldnt allow for such loopholes. This is why/how TOE never made it
in the kernel.
cheers,
jamal
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