netdev - Re: [patch net-next 2/3] mlxsw: expose EMAD transactions statistics via debugfs

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Message-Id: <20150826.172627.1308479737177053945.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:26:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sfeldma@...il.com
Cc:	jiri@...nulli.us, netdev@...r.kernel.org, idosch@...lanox.com,
	eladr@...lanox.com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com, jiri@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 2/3] mlxsw: expose EMAD transactions
 statistics via debugfs

From: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:21:59 -0700

> Using another netdev doesn't seem right.  Do we need a new device
> class for switches, and then create some common tool/interfaces for
> switch device class?

This is probably what we will need to do.

There has also been a discussion lately about making light weight
netdev objects, of which these new switch things can be a super-class
of.
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