On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 10:30:01AM +0000, Laurentiu Tudor wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My 2c below.
>
> On 04/04/2018 03:42 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >> I hear you. It is more complicated this way...having all these individual
> >> objects vs just a single "bundle" of them that represents a NIC. But,
> >> that's
> >> the way the DPAA2 hardware is, and we're implementing kernel support for
> >> the hardware as it is.
> >
> > Hi Stuart
> >
> > I see we are not making any progress here.
> >
> > So what i suggest is you post the kernel code and configuration tool
> > concept to netdev for a full review. You want reviews from David
> > Miller, Jiri Pirko, Jakub Kicinski, David Ahern, etc.
> >
>
> I think that the discussion steered too much towards networking related
> topics, while this ioctl doesn't have much to do with networking.
Hi Laurentiu
So i can use switchdev without it? I can modprobe the switchdev
driver, all the physical interfaces will appear, and i can use ip addr
add etc. I do not need to use a user space tool at all in order to use
the network functionality?
Andrew
