netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support

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Message-ID: <20160427151336.GB1962@nanopsycho.orion>
Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 17:14:04 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support

Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:56:15AM CEST, fw@...len.de wrote:
>Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com> wrote:
>> This patch adds the support of the 6WIND SHULTI switch. It is a software
>> switch doing L2 forwarding.
>> 
>> This first version implements the minimum needed to get the device working.
>> It also implements, via switchdev and rtnetlink, bridge forwarding offload,
>> including FDB static entries, FDB learning and FDB ageing.
>
>How is this different from net/bridge?
>How is this different from openvswitch?

The difference is that it this tries to allow userspace crap to mirror
setting user does for bridge/ovs. Basically this looks to me like an
attempt to enable userspace SDKs and such.