netdev - Re: [patch net-next v3 02/17] net: make vid as a parameter for ndo_fdb_add/ndo_fdb

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Date:	Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:43:57 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next v3 02/17] net: make vid as a parameter for
 ndo_fdb_add/ndo_fdb_del

Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 05:19:36PM CET, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com wrote:
>On 11/25/14, 7:38 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>>On 11/25/14 05:28, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>>Do the work of parsing NDA_VLAN directly in rtnetlink code, pass simple
>>>u16 vid to drivers from there.
>>>
>>
>>Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
>>
>>I know this maintains status quo of what is already in the kernel.
>>But we need to take care of policy (pass it from user space) which
>>dictates how to proceed on failure. Three possible options:
>>1) If something fails just continue with the rest of the transaction.
>>Return success if at least one thing succeeds.
>>2) If something fails stop transaction and return some partial success code
>>3) If something fails undo everything that has been done and return
>>failure.
>>
>>So two bits from somewhere would be useful to send from userspace->kernel
>>
>>
>
>ack to what jamal said.  In the model where sw and hw must be in sync, we
>need a mechanism to roll back in this approach.
>
>I like that you are using existing ops.
>To avoid the synchronization problem or to make the rollback easier, You can
>still use existing ops and move this into the bridge driver.
>ie call ndo_fdb_add/del and ndo_bridge_setlink/ndo_bridge_getlink on the
>bridge port from within the bridge driver.
>
>Again, vote for change ndo_bridge_setlink/ndo_bridge_getlink to be renamed to
>ndo_setlink/getlink for other netdevs. I can submit a patch.

That is not right I believe. This is for PF_BRIDGE, should have "bridge"
in it because just "setlink/getlink" might be mistaken with similar rtnl
ops.

>
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