From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ilias Apalodimas Subject: Re: [RFC v2, net-next, PATCH 4/4] net/cpsw_switchdev: add switchdev mode of operation on cpsw driver Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 20:51:28 +0300 Message-ID: <20180620175128.GA27235@apalos> References: <1528974690-31600-1-git-send-email-ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org> <1528974690-31600-5-git-send-email-ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org> <20180618161627.GC5865@lunn.ch> <20180618201940.GA5890@apalos> <671c83ea-6227-cc09-e604-14cfa6804726@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andrew Lunn , netdev@vger.kernel.org, grygorii.strashko@ti.com, ivan.khoronzhuk@linaro.org, nsekhar@ti.com, jiri@resnulli.us, f.fainelli@gmail.com, francois.ozog@linaro.org, yogeshs@ti.com, spatton@ti.com, Jose.Abreu@synopsys.com To: Ivan Vecera Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f67.google.com ([74.125.82.67]:33694 "EHLO mail-wm0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754161AbeFTRve (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2018 13:51:34 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f67.google.com with SMTP id z6-v6so198227wma.0 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <671c83ea-6227-cc09-e604-14cfa6804726@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello Ivan, On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 02:56:48PM +0200, Ivan Vecera wrote: > On 18.6.2018 22:19, Ilias Apalodimas wrote: > > Jiri proposed using devlink, which makes sense, but i am not sure it's > > applicable on this patchset. This will change the driver completely and will > > totally break backwards compatibility. > > Another good reason for a new driver. > > I. This is actually conflicting at least to my understanding. Jiri proposed using devlink was used as an alternative method to enable a new mode instead of adding it on a .config option. A new driver wouldn't have a need for that right? Thanks Ilias