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From: Egil Hjelmeland <privat@egil-hjelmeland.no>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Roman Yeryomin <roman@advem.lv>
Cc: "Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	"Vivien Didelot" <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>,
	"Florian Fainelli" <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Antti Seppälä" <a.seppala@gmail.com>,
	"Colin Leitner" <colin.leitner@googlemail.com>,
	"Gabor Juhos" <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] RFC: net: dsa: realtek-smi: Add Realtek SMI driver
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:17:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14bbe2b4-4c8e-d6d9-3074-d0c51dd11241@egil-hjelmeland.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171109132400.GA10640@lunn.ch>

On 09. nov. 2017 14:24, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> What should also be considered is who is pushing swithdev and DSA
> forward, and for what market.
> 
> Pure switchdev drivers is mostly being pushed forward for Top or Rack
> switches. Big switches, 10G, 40G, 100G ports and lots of them. L3
> routing, etc.
> 
> switchdev/DSA is mostly being pushed forward by industrial
> applications. Switches in big vehicles, trains, planes. Industrial
> plant control.
> 

Out of curiosity: Are there fundamental reasons why ToR switches don't 
use the DSA model, or is it more historical?

> 
>      Andrew
> 

Egil

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-10 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-05 23:19 [PATCH 0/4] RFC: Realtek 83xx SMI driver core Linus Walleij
2017-11-05 23:19 ` [PATCH 1/4] RFC: net/dsa: Allow DSA PHYs to define link IRQs Linus Walleij
2017-11-05 23:19 ` [PATCH 2/4] RFC: net: phy: realtek: Support RTL8366RB variant Linus Walleij
2017-11-05 23:19 ` [PATCH 3/4] RFC: net: dsa: Add bindings for Realtek SMI DSAs Linus Walleij
2017-11-05 23:48   ` Andrew Lunn
     [not found]     ` <20171105234831.GA24822-g2DYL2Zd6BY@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-29 12:24       ` Linus Walleij
2017-11-29 15:56         ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-29 21:28           ` Linus Walleij
     [not found]             ` <CACRpkdZVXgFMiHpyUqw7ONYDcq6Htn3rTMRaBJkzd6T3WtX36A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-29 21:48               ` Florian Fainelli
2017-11-29 21:56             ` Andrew Lunn
     [not found]               ` <20171129215659.GC1706-g2DYL2Zd6BY@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-29 23:19                 ` Linus Walleij
2017-11-29 23:26                   ` Florian Fainelli
     [not found]                     ` <f9bfa1e1-7f05-1e2b-6663-09d4d3bf6a12-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-29 23:36                       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-12-02 12:56                     ` Linus Walleij
     [not found]                       ` <CACRpkdYoMVNh8eaTnaDQ59bsh4bC88biLaYSXyhnc4W83PMWzA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-04 22:50                         ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-05 23:19 ` [PATCH 4/4] RFC: net: dsa: realtek-smi: Add Realtek SMI driver Linus Walleij
2017-11-05 23:59   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-06  8:25     ` Linus Walleij
2017-11-09 12:49   ` Roman Yeryomin
2017-11-09 13:24     ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-09 15:11       ` Roman Yeryomin
2017-11-09 15:38         ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-09 17:21           ` Roman Yeryomin
2017-11-09 17:24             ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-09 18:08               ` Florian Fainelli
2017-11-10  8:16                 ` Linus Walleij
2017-11-10 12:05                 ` Roman Yeryomin
2017-11-10 12:02               ` Roman Yeryomin
2017-11-10 13:51                 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-10 12:17       ` Egil Hjelmeland [this message]
2017-11-10 14:01         ` Andrew Lunn
2018-04-02 16:10 ` [PATCH 0/4] RFC: Realtek 83xx SMI driver core Carl-Daniel Hailfinger

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