RE: [PATCH] bonding: Offloading bonds to hardware

[Premkumar Jonnala <pjonnala@broadcom.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net]
> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 12:40 AM
> To: f.fainelli@gmail.com
> Cc: Premkumar Jonnala; netdev@vger.kernel.org; sfeldma@gmail.com;
> jiri@resnulli.us; nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com; idosch@mellanox.com;
> gospo@cumulusnetworks.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: Offloading bonds to hardware
> 
> From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:38:48 -0800
> 
> > This is a good explanation of why you want the changes, and how this is
> > implemented in a system utilizing that, but this is not documenting why
> > you are making these changes to the bonding code, nor how they are
> > supposed to be used by an implementor driver, since there is no such
> > user posted (yet?).
> 
> I am basically not even going to look at proposals for new device ops
> that don't also show an actual user of the new interfaces.
> 
> That's not how we do development, and not providing a real example
> user of a new set of interfaces makes it impossible to properly review
> such changes.

Thank you for the feedback David.  I am currently handling/implementing
these notifications in a custom (closed source) driver.  I will update the diff 
with an actual demo of the handler, and resend the diffs.

Thanks
Prem