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Date:	Thu, 04 Dec 2014 23:04:25 -0800
From:	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:	Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
CC:	Jiří Pírko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	john fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
	"stephen@...workplumber.org" <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	John Linville <linville@...driver.com>,
	"nhorman@...driver.com" <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	"vyasevic@...hat.com" <vyasevic@...hat.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	"buytenh@...tstofly.org" <buytenh@...tstofly.org>,
	Aviad Raveh <aviadr@...lanox.com>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, shm@...ulusnetworks.com,
	Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] bridge link: add option 'self'

On 12/4/14, 10:52 PM, Scott Feldman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:27 PM,  <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com> wrote:
>> From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
>>
>> Currently self is set internally only if hwmode is set.
>> This makes it necessary for the hw to have a mode.
>> There is no hwmode really required to go to hardware. So, introduce
>> self for anybody who wants to target hardware.
> Can you include unwinding the hwmode 'swdev' setting for
> kernel/iproute2 in v2?  With this "self" option, and your new
> NETIF_F_HW_SWITCH_OFFLOAD flag, we don't need the hwmde 'swdev'.
yep. will do. thanks

>> ---
>>   bridge/link.c |    3 +++
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/bridge/link.c b/bridge/link.c
>> index 90d9e7f..2b86141 100644
>> --- a/bridge/link.c
>> +++ b/bridge/link.c
>> @@ -321,6 +321,9 @@ static int brlink_modify(int argc, char **argv)
>>                                          "\"veb\".\n");
>>                                  exit(-1);
>>                          }
>> +               } else if (strcmp(*argv, "self") == 0) {
>> +                       NEXT_ARG();
>> +                       flags = BRIDGE_FLAGS_SELF;
>>                  } else {
>>                          usage();
>>                  }
>> --
>> 1.7.10.4
>>

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