netdev - RE: [PATCH] bonding: Offloading bonds to hardware

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Message-ID: <77EF4405DD4BB54AACCE7DB593DF6A9AA09053@SJEXCHMB14.corp.ad.broadcom.com>
Date:	Mon, 16 Nov 2015 06:49:49 +0000
From:	Premkumar Jonnala <pjonnala@...adcom.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"f.fainelli@...il.com" <f.fainelli@...il.com>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"sfeldma@...il.com" <sfeldma@...il.com>,
	"jiri@...nulli.us" <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	"nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com" <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	"idosch@...lanox.com" <idosch@...lanox.com>,
	"gospo@...ulusnetworks.com" <gospo@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] bonding: Offloading bonds to hardware



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Premkumar Jonnala
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 11:42 AM
> To: 'David Miller'; f.fainelli@...il.com
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org; sfeldma@...il.com; jiri@...nulli.us;
> nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com; idosch@...lanox.com;
> gospo@...ulusnetworks.com
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] bonding: Offloading bonds to hardware
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net]
> > Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 12:40 AM
> > To: f.fainelli@...il.com
> > Cc: Premkumar Jonnala; netdev@...r.kernel.org; sfeldma@...il.com;
> > jiri@...nulli.us; nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com; idosch@...lanox.com;
> > gospo@...ulusnetworks.com
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: Offloading bonds to hardware
> >
> > From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> > Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:38:48 -0800
> >
> > > This is a good explanation of why you want the changes, and how this is
> > > implemented in a system utilizing that, but this is not documenting why
> > > you are making these changes to the bonding code, nor how they are
> > > supposed to be used by an implementor driver, since there is no such
> > > user posted (yet?).
> >
> > I am basically not even going to look at proposals for new device ops
> > that don't also show an actual user of the new interfaces.
> >
> > That's not how we do development, and not providing a real example
> > user of a new set of interfaces makes it impossible to properly review
> > such changes.
> 
> Thank you for the feedback David.  I am currently handling/implementing
> these notifications in a custom (closed source) driver.  I will update the diff
> with an actual demo of the handler, and resend the diffs.

Clarification: When I say a "closed source" driver, I was implying a closed-source
user-level application that programs hardware.

Thanks
Prem

> 
> Thanks
> Prem
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