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From: roopa <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
To: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	sfeldma@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux@roeck-us.net,
	f.fainelli@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/18] switchdev: spring cleanup
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:00:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55196513.8080101@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150330131049.GI1051@gospo>

On 3/30/15, 6:11 AM, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 02:00:25PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:40:18AM CEST, sfeldma@gmail.com wrote:
>>> From: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> The main theme of this patch set is to cleanup swdev in preparation for
>>> new features or fixes to be added soon.  We have a pretty good idea now how
>>> to handle stacked drivers in swdev, but there where some loose ends.  For
>>> example, if a set failed in the middle of walking the lower devs, we would
>>> leave the system in an undefined state...there was no way to recover back to
>>> the previous state.  Speaking of sets, also recognize a pattern that most
>>> swdev API accesses are gets or sets of port attributes, so go ahead and make
>>> port attr get/set the central swdev API, and convert everything that is
>>> set-ish/get-ish to this new API.
>>>
>>> Features/fixes that should follow from this cleanup:
>>>
>>> - solve the duplicate pkt forwarding issue
>>> - get/set bridge attrs, like ageing_time, from/to device
>>> - get/set more bridge port attrs from/to device
>>>
>>> There are some rename cleanups tagging along at the end, to give swdev
>>> consistent naming.
>> As you can see in the switchdev patch submission history, I originally
>> pushed this with "swdev_" previx. Turned out people did not like that
>> because "sw" can be easily misunderstood as "software".
> I agree with this.
>
agree. maybe just "switchdev_" will be better.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-30 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-30  8:40 [PATCH net-next 00/18] switchdev: spring cleanup sfeldma
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 01/18] switchdev: introduce get/set attrs ops sfeldma
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 02/18] switchdev: flesh out get/set attr ops sfeldma
2015-03-30 11:55   ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-30 18:32   ` Arad, Ronen
2015-03-30 20:46     ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-30 21:00       ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-31  0:22   ` Arad, Ronen
2015-03-31  0:38     ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-31 15:37       ` roopa
     [not found]       ` <CAJieiUh0Svt3LZsgoi7RaV8Be0eFyRvoJU3BmW7v3fEvwfXiHg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-03-31 16:05         ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 03/18] switchdev: convert parent_id_get to swdev attr get sfeldma
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 04/18] switchdev: convert STP update to swdev attr set sfeldma
2015-03-30 11:54   ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-30 13:47     ` roopa
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 05/18] switchdev: add bridge port flags attr sfeldma
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 06/18] rocker: use swdev get/set attr for bridge port flags sfeldma
2015-03-30 12:01   ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 07/18] switchdev: add new swdev bridge setlink sfeldma
2015-03-30 12:31   ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 08/18] rocker: cut over to new swdev_port_bridge_setlink sfeldma
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 09/18] bonding: " sfeldma
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 10/18] team: " sfeldma
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 11/18] switchdev: remove old netdev_switch_port_bridge_setlink sfeldma
2015-03-30 13:23   ` roopa
2015-03-30 20:20     ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-30 20:46       ` Arad, Ronen
2015-03-30 21:27         ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-31  0:08           ` Arad, Ronen
2015-03-31  0:44             ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-31  5:52             ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-31 19:15               ` Arad, Ronen
2015-03-31 21:52                 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-31 23:32                   ` Arad, Ronen
2015-04-01  2:38                     ` Scott Feldman
2015-04-01 12:03                       ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-04-01 17:56                         ` Scott Feldman
2015-04-02  1:01                     ` Florian Fainelli
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 12/18] switchdev: remove unused netdev_switch_port_bridge_dellink sfeldma
2015-03-30 13:23   ` roopa
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 13/18] switchdev: remove unused NETIF_F_HW_SWITCH_OFFLOAD sfeldma
2015-03-30 13:38   ` roopa
2015-03-30 20:48     ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2015-03-30 21:20     ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-31 15:34       ` roopa
     [not found]       ` <CAJieiUiL4QRQAC30=bkYadYD2L2cOcn7mNLV98uH3Go0exMO+A@mail.gmail.com>
2015-03-31 16:03         ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 14/18] switchdev: add new swdev_port_bridge_getlink sfeldma
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 15/18] rocker: cut over to " sfeldma
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 16/18] switchdev: rename netdev_switch_fib_* to swdev_fib_* sfeldma
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 17/18] switchdev: rename netdev_switch_notifier_* to swdev_notifier_* sfeldma
2015-03-30  8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 18/18] switchdev: bring documentation up-to-date sfeldma
2015-03-30 12:00 ` [PATCH net-next 00/18] switchdev: spring cleanup Jiri Pirko
2015-03-30 13:11   ` Andy Gospodarek
2015-03-30 15:00     ` roopa [this message]
2015-03-30 16:11       ` Or Gerlitz

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