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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>,
	gregkh <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stuart Yoder <stuyoder@gmail.com>,
	Ruxandra Ioana Ciocoi Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu@nxp.com>,
	Razvan Stefanescu <razvan.stefanescu@nxp.com>,
	Roy Pledge <roy.pledge@nxp.com>,
	Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] bus: fsl-mc: add restool userspace support
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:28:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180328162811.GB15827@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a1aQCm_r95Ka4x+j8SJLCLFvLuX3A4twK1WJcJs66YwKg@mail.gmail.com>

> I'm still not convinced either way (high-level or low-level
> interface), but I think
> this needs to be discussed with the networking maintainers. Given the examples
> on the github page you linked to, the high-level user space commands
> based on these ioctls
> 
>    ls-addni   # adds a network interface
>    ls-addmux  # adds a dpdmux
>    ls-addsw   # adds an l2switch
>    ls-listmac # lists MACs and their connections
>    ls-listni  # lists network interfaces and their connections
> 
> and I see that you also support the switchdev interface in
> drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2, which I think does some of the same
> things, presumably by implementing the switchdev API using
> fsl_mc_command low-level interfaces in the kernel.

Hi Arnd

I agree that switchdev and devlink should be the correct way to handle
this. The low level plumbing of the hardware should all be
hidden. There should not be any user space commands needed other than
the usual network configuration tools and devlink.

      Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-28 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-23 15:38 [PATCH v3 0/4] bus: fsl-mc: enhance Management Complex userspace support Ioana Ciornei
2018-03-23 15:38 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] bus: fsl-mc: move fsl_mc_command struct in a uapi header Ioana Ciornei
2018-03-24 20:12   ` kbuild test robot
2018-03-23 15:38 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] bus: fsl-mc: add restool userspace support Ioana Ciornei
2018-03-23 15:46   ` Greg KH
2018-03-23 15:56     ` Ioana Ciornei
2018-03-23 16:09       ` Greg KH
2018-03-23 20:13         ` Ioana Ciornei
2018-03-24  7:51   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-28 14:27     ` Ioana Ciornei
2018-03-28 15:43       ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-28 16:28         ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-04-02 13:24           ` Ioana Ciornei
2018-04-02 13:44             ` Andrew Lunn
2018-04-03 11:12               ` Razvan Stefanescu
2018-04-03 13:04                 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-04-03 23:57         ` Stuart Yoder
2018-04-04  1:05           ` Andrew Lunn
2018-04-04  3:22             ` Stuart Yoder
2018-04-04 12:42               ` Andrew Lunn
2018-04-05  4:24                 ` Stuart Yoder
2018-04-05 10:30                 ` Laurentiu Tudor
2018-04-05 11:47                   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-04-05 12:16                     ` Laurentiu Tudor
2018-04-05 12:48                       ` Andrew Lunn
2018-04-05 14:43                         ` Laurentiu Tudor
2018-04-05 15:23                           ` Andrew Lunn
2018-04-05 15:35                             ` Ruxandra Ioana Ciocoi Radulescu
2018-04-05 16:12                               ` gregkh
2018-04-05 16:56                                 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-04-05 12:30                   ` gregkh
2018-04-05 14:09                     ` Laurentiu Tudor
2018-04-05 14:19                       ` gregkh
2018-03-23 15:38 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] bus: fsl-mc: add root dprc rescan attribute Ioana Ciornei
2018-03-23 15:48   ` Greg KH
2018-03-23 16:00     ` Ioana Ciornei
2018-03-23 15:38 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] bus: fsl-mc: add bus " Ioana Ciornei
2018-03-23 15:49   ` Greg KH
2018-04-02 13:46     ` Ioana Ciornei
2018-04-03  7:04       ` Greg KH

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