netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/18] switchdev: spring cleanup

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Message-ID: <55196513.8080101@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:00:35 -0700
From:	roopa <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:	Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...ulusnetworks.com>
CC:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, sfeldma@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux@...ck-us.net, f.fainelli@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/18] switchdev: spring cleanup

On 3/30/15, 6:11 AM, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 02:00:25PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:40:18AM CEST, sfeldma@...il.com wrote:
>>> From: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
>>>
>>> The main theme of this patch set is to cleanup swdev in preparation for
>>> new features or fixes to be added soon.  We have a pretty good idea now how
>>> to handle stacked drivers in swdev, but there where some loose ends.  For
>>> example, if a set failed in the middle of walking the lower devs, we would
>>> leave the system in an undefined state...there was no way to recover back to
>>> the previous state.  Speaking of sets, also recognize a pattern that most
>>> swdev API accesses are gets or sets of port attributes, so go ahead and make
>>> port attr get/set the central swdev API, and convert everything that is
>>> set-ish/get-ish to this new API.
>>>
>>> Features/fixes that should follow from this cleanup:
>>>
>>> - solve the duplicate pkt forwarding issue
>>> - get/set bridge attrs, like ageing_time, from/to device
>>> - get/set more bridge port attrs from/to device
>>>
>>> There are some rename cleanups tagging along at the end, to give swdev
>>> consistent naming.
>> As you can see in the switchdev patch submission history, I originally
>> pushed this with "swdev_" previx. Turned out people did not like that
>> because "sw" can be easily misunderstood as "software".
> I agree with this.
>
agree. maybe just "switchdev_" will be better.
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