netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/3] remove bridge mode BRIDGE_MODE

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Date:	Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:00:01 -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>,
	"vyasevic@...hat.com" <vyasevic@...hat.com>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"shm@...ulusnetworks.com" <shm@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/3] remove bridge mode BRIDGE_MODE_SWDEV

On 12/8/14, 2:49 PM, Scott Feldman wrote:
> Roopa, thanks for fixing this.  I'm a little lost on status of the
> iproute2 patches related to this change and earlier changes.  Would
> you and Jiri respin one set of iproute2 patches that gets us the final
> answer?  It was getting a little messy with patches on top of
> yet-to-be-accepted patches.  Thanks.
scott, the iproute2 v3 patch was the last (hopefully final) patch and 
jiri and you signed-off on that
Its here:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/418350/

Thanks for the review.

>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:04 PM,  <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com> wrote:
>> From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
>>
>> BRIDGE_MODE_SWDEV was introduced to indicate switchdev offloads
>> for bridging from user space (In other words to call into the hw switch
>> port driver directly). But user can use existing BRIDGE_FLAGS_SELF
>> to call into the hw switch port driver today. swdev mode is not required
>> anymore. So, this patch removes it.
>>
>> v4 - v5
>>      incorporate comments
>>      - Define BRIDGE_MODE_UNDEF to handle cases where mode is not defined
>>      - reverse the order of patches
>>      - include patch comments in all patches
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
>>
>> Roopa Prabhu (3):
>>    bridge: new mode flag to indicate mode 'undefined'
>>    rocker: remove swdev mode
>>    bridge: remove mode 'swdev'
>>
>>   drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c |   18 +-----------------
>>   include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h       |    2 +-
>>   net/core/rtnetlink.c                 |   10 ++++++++--
>>   3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 1.7.10.4
>>
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