netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net/devlink: Add E-Switch encapsulation control

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Date:   Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:36:34 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Hadar Har-Zion <hadarh@...lanox.com>,
        Roi Dayan <roid@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net/devlink: Add E-Switch encapsulation
 control

Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 06:20:14PM CET, ogerlitz@...lanox.com wrote:
>On 2/9/2017 7:10 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> > @@ -1470,11 +1480,23 @@ static int devlink_nl_cmd_eswitch_set_doit(struct sk_buff *skb,
>> > 	const struct devlink_ops *ops = devlink->ops;
>> > 	u16 mode;
>> > 	u8 inline_mode;
>> > +	bool encap;
>> > 	int err = 0;
>> > 
>> > 	if (!ops)
>> > 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>> > 
>> > +	if (info->attrs[DEVLINK_ATTR_ESWITCH_ENCAP]) {
>> > +		if (!ops->eswitch_encap_set)
>> > +			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>> > +		if (!info->attrs[DEVLINK_ATTR_ESWITCH_MODE])

Why you need to check this? Should be possible to set the attrs
separatelly.


>> > +			return -EINVAL;
>> > +		encap = nla_get_u8(info->attrs[DEVLINK_ATTR_ESWITCH_ENCAP]);
>> > +		err = ops->eswitch_encap_set(devlink, encap);
>> > +		if (err)
>> > +			return err;
>> > +	}
>> Please maintain the same order as the attr enum and getters and put this
>> behind the inline_mode.
>
>The HW driver might want to use the attributes only when they are called to
>change the eswitch mode.

I don't get it. Should be a separate attribute - separate op


>
>I see that the patch is not too consistent with setting the inline mode which
>is done after setting the eswitch mode, mmm, guess we need to fix that.
>
>Or.
>
>
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