netdev - Re: [patch net-next v4 09/21] bridge: call netdev_sw_port_stp_update when bridge port STP status changes

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Date:	Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:43:41 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next v4 09/21] bridge: call netdev_sw_port_stp_update
 when bridge port STP status changes

Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 02:14:20PM CET, jhs@...atatu.com wrote:
>On 11/27/14 05:40, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>From: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
>>
>>To notify switch driver of change in STP state of bridge port, add new
>>.ndo op and provide switchdev wrapper func to call ndo op. Use it in bridge
>>code then.
>>
>
>As it stands right now we are going to pollute the ndo ops and grow
>it fatter like the skb (its probably as fat).
>If i am not mistaken ethtool has some scheme it uses to pass opaque
>objects to different functions. Having a generic
>set/get_netdev_offload_attr() would be the right thing to do.
>An {id, *value} or {id, len, *value} or a void * would do.
>So not objecting - but not ACKing either.

Yeah, this will be changed in future when more and more info will need
to be passed to offloads.

>
>cheers,
>jamal
>
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