netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] switchdev: push bridge attributes down

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Date:	Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:47:41 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
Cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiří Pírko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	Siva Mannem <siva.mannem.lnx@...il.com>,
	Premkumar Jonnala <pjonnala@...adcom.com>,
	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	"andrew@...n.ch" <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] switchdev: push bridge attributes down

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:25:01 -0700
Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:59:26 -0700
> > sfeldma@...il.com wrote:
> >
> >> From: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
> >>
> >> Push bridge-level attributes down to switchdev drivers.  This patchset
> >> adds the infrastructure and then pushes, as an example, ageing_time attribute
> >> down from bridge to switchdev (rocker) driver.  Add some range-checking
> >> for ageing_time.
> >>
> >> # ip link set dev br0 type bridge ageing_time 1000
> >>
> >> # ip link set dev br0 type bridge ageing_time 999
> >> RTNETLINK answers: Numerical result out of range
> >>
> >> Up until now, switchdev attrs where port-level attrs, so the netdev used in
> >> switchdev_attr_set() would be a switch port or bond of switch ports.  With
> >> bridge-level attrs, the netdev passed to switchdev_attr_set() is the bridge
> >> netdev.  The same recusive algo is used to visit the leaves of the stacked
> >> drivers to set the attr, it's just in this case we start one layer higher in
> >> the stack.  One note is not all ports in the bridge may support setting a
> >> bridge-level attribute, so rather than failing the entire set, we'll skip over
> >> those ports returning -EOPNOTSUPP.
> >
> >
> > Rather than having more in bridge, shouldn't this just be a netlink event?
> 
> You lost me?  Oh, do you mean netdev notifier?  Jiri (privately) had
> suggested that also.

Yes. I meant a netlink notifier so that user or kernel space driver
can track changes. Otherwise you have to add switchdev callbacks for
each parameter.
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