RE: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 1/1] net: Support for switch port configuration

2014-12-18 Thread Arad, Ronen
>-Original Message- >From: netdev-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On >Behalf Of John Fastabend >Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 9:21 PM >To: Roopa Prabhu; Varlese, Marco >Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org; Thomas Graf; Jiri Pirko; sfel...@gmail.com; linux- >ker...@v

RE: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 1/1] net: Support for switch port configuration

2014-12-18 Thread Arad, Ronen
> -Original Message- > From: Fastabend, John R > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 6:14 PM > To: Arad, Ronen; Varlese, Marco; Roopa Prabhu; net...@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Thomas Graf; Jiri Pirko; sfel...@gmail.com; linux- > ker...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [RFC

RE: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 1/1] net: Support for switch port configuration

2014-12-18 Thread Arad, Ronen
> -Original Message- > From: netdev-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev- > ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Varlese, Marco > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 4:56 PM > To: Roopa Prabhu > Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org; Fastabend, John R; Thomas Graf; Jiri Pirko; > sfel...@gmail.com; linu

RE: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/1] net: Support for switch port configuration

2014-12-15 Thread Arad, Ronen
The proposed patch introduces a way for supporting device specific switch port attributes. Can we expect user-space tools such as iproute2 to be aware of such attributes from every device? A generic tool like iproute2 can't be aware of all the specific attributes of all the devices that will us