Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 03:02:10AM CEST, f.faine...@gmail.com wrote: >2014-08-22 5:56 GMT-07:00 Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us>: >> Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 02:42:04PM CEST, j...@mojatatu.com wrote: >>>On 08/21/14 13:05, Florian Fainelli wrote: >>>>2014-08-21 9:18 GMT-07:00 Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us>: >>>>>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. >>>> >>>>I read through this patch set, and I still think that DSA is the >>>>generic switch infrastructure we already have because it does provide >>>>the following: >>>> >>>>- taking a generic platform data structure (C struct or Device Tree), >>>>validate, parse it and map it to internal kernel structures >>>>- instantiate per-port network devices based on the configuration data >>>>provided >>>>- delegate netdev_ops to the switch driver and/or the CPU NIC when relevant >>>>- provide support for hooking RX and TX traffic coming from the CPU NIC >>>> >>>>I would rather we build on the existing DSA infrastructure and add the >>>>flow-related netdev_ops rather than having the two remain in >>>>disconnect while flow-oriented switches driver get progressively >>>>added. I guess I should take a closer look at the rocker driver to see >>>>how hard would that be for you. >>>> >>>>What do you think? >>> >>> >>>I thought we had concluded that DSA was a good path forward? Or maybe at >>>this stage we need to have several alternative approaches >>>and we eventually converge? >> >> That is true. I'm still unsure how to fit this on to DSA or how to change DSA >> the way this fits. This is my quest now. Will report back in a week or so. > >I don't want to hold off this patch series, so let's proceed with your >submission, since I believe John Fastabend would also directly benefit >from this. > >In the meantime, I will keep working on DSA, and prototype changes >with the rocker driver. > >Once we are confident we have bridged the gap, we can unify things. >How does that sound?
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