netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] switchdev: Enable HW offloading of fdb add/delete on team devices.

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Message-ID: <551AEA4E.9020305@intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:41:18 -0700
From:	"Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>
To:	Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
CC:	Jiří Pírko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	sfeldman@...il.com, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] switchdev: Enable HW offloading of fdb add/delete
 on team devices.

On 3/31/2015 9:16 AM, Scott Feldman wrote:
> Hi Sridhar,
>
> Thanks for working on this.  It looks good to me.  But, this is an
> example of the ops code exposition I was trying to address in my swdev
> attrs patch.  I'll planning on sending a v2 for that patch set
> tonight, and I think you'll see adding your work for FDB add/del over
> stacked drivers will just fall out with just a little bit of new code.
> I hope you would resend this patch based on my v2?
Sure. Will look into your v2 patch and resend based on that patch and 
also will
see if i can include fdb dump support.

>
> BTW, swdev attrs is what I had in v1. What's coming in v2 in addition
> to swdev attrs and swdev objs, to support things that are objects and
> not attributes, like VLANs, FDB entries, FIB entries.  Hopefully it
> makes sense when you see it.
>
> -scott
>
>

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