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Message-ID: <5519B6A2.4040204@intel.com> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:48:34 -0700 From: "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com> To: roopa <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>, sfeldma@...il.com CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...nulli.us, linux@...ck-us.net, f.fainelli@...il.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 13/18] switchdev: remove unused NETIF_F_HW_SWITCH_OFFLOAD On 3/30/2015 6:38 AM, roopa wrote: > On 3/30/15, 1:40 AM, sfeldma@...il.com wrote: >> From: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com> >> >> Flag is no longer needed so remove it. Using the attr get/set >> recurse algo >> obsoletes the flag. Setting the flag on bond/team interface, even >> when the >> consitient member ports didn't have flag set was confusing. >> >> Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com> > > The flag was there to avoid the recursive lowerdev walk where possible. > bond will have the flag if any one slave can have it. You don't walk > the bond if it does not have the flag. > Also, this allows the user to disable the feature from userspace if > required and move everything to software. > I was also planning to use this flag to enable lowerdev walk for fdb add/delete on a team device with switchdev member ports and not attached to a bridge. Will submit a RFC patch for review. Thanks Sridhar -- 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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