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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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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