Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 06:41:23PM CEST, b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: >On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 18:18 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> The goal of this is to provide a possibility to suport various switch >> chips. Drivers should implement relevant ndos to do so. Now there is a >> couple of ndos defines: >> - for getting physical switch id is in place. >> - for work with flows. >> >> Note that user can use random port netdevice to access the switch. >[...] > >Why isn't the switch treated as a real device (not necessarily a net >device) that's included in the device model and that the port devices >refer to?
That is certainly possible. But so far, there is no need for it. But I guess that it's probably a good idea at least to put it into sysfs structure. Noted, thanks Ben. > >Ben. > >-- >Ben Hutchings >If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
