From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Dichtel Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:59:34 +0200 Message-ID: <5721FB26.6070305@6wind.com> 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> Reply-To: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: fw@strlen.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller , jiri@resnulli.us Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f43.google.com ([74.125.82.43]:38476 "EHLO mail-wm0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751505AbcD1L7u (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:59:50 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f43.google.com with SMTP id g17so37299242wme.1 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 04:59:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160427.125506.1088576804354580011.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 mirr= or >> setting user does for bridge/ovs. Basically this looks to me like an >> attempt to enable userspace SDKs and such. >=20 > +1 I don't think so because a userspace can receive all the bridge/ovs set= tings by mean of netlink mirror, without the need for this driver at all.