On 06/20/2018 10:51 AM, Ilias Apalodimas wrote: > Hello Ivan, > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 02:56:48PM +0200, Ivan Vecera wrote: >> On 18.6.2018 22:19, Ilias Apalodimas wrote: >>> Jiri proposed using devlink, which makes sense, but i am not sure it's >>> applicable on this patchset. This will change the driver completely and will >>> totally break backwards compatibility. >> >> Another good reason for a new driver. >> >> I. > This is actually conflicting at least to my understanding. Jiri proposed > using > devlink was used as an alternative method to enable a new mode instead of > adding it on a .config option. A new driver wouldn't have a need for that > right?
Correct, with a new driver would likely behave correctly upon being probed such that you could have your switch ports act as normal network devices from which you could run IP-config and do NFS boot. -- Florian
