From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Pirko Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 17:24:43 +0200 Message-ID: <20160501152443.GA1947@nanopsycho.orion> References: <1461749838-4613-1-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> <20160427095615.GA27071@breakpoint.cc> <20160427151336.GB1962@nanopsycho.orion> <20160427.125506.1088576804354580011.davem@davemloft.net> <5721FB26.6070305@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: David Miller , fw@strlen.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Dichtel Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f65.google.com ([74.125.82.65]:35940 "EHLO mail-wm0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751399AbcEAPYq (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2016 11:24:46 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f65.google.com with SMTP id w143so13668266wmw.3 for ; Sun, 01 May 2016 08:24:45 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5721FB26.6070305@6wind.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 01:59:34PM CEST, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com wrote: >Le 27/04/2016 18:55, David Miller a =E9crit : >> From: Jiri Pirko >[snip] >>> The difference is that it this tries to allow userspace crap to mir= ror >>> setting user does for bridge/ovs. Basically this looks to me like a= n >>> attempt to enable userspace SDKs and such. >>=20 >> +1 >I don't think so because a userspace can receive all the bridge/ovs se= ttings by >mean of netlink mirror, without the need for this driver at all. Okay, so what is the different is your words? I asked about purpose and userspace for this "driver", but you didn't provide that. I see what I see. Also, if you say you don't need this driver at all, why are you pushing it? Userspace apps can glean on netlink messages and act accordingly. I= n fact, this is what people are doing (for example Cumulus). I must be missing something there... (unfortunatelly, I'm pretty sure I= 'm not).