On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:55:06 -0400 (EDT) David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> > Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 17:14:04 +0200 > > > Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:56:15AM CEST, f...@strlen.de wrote: > >>Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com> wrote: > >>> This patch adds the support of the 6WIND SHULTI switch. It is a software > >>> switch doing L2 forwarding. > >>> > >>> This first version implements the minimum needed to get the device > >>> working. > >>> It also implements, via switchdev and rtnetlink, bridge forwarding > >>> offload, > >>> including FDB static entries, FDB learning and FDB ageing. > >> > >>How is this different from net/bridge? > >>How is this different from openvswitch? > > > > The difference is that it this tries to allow userspace crap to mirror > > setting user does for bridge/ovs. Basically this looks to me like an > > attempt to enable userspace SDKs and such. > > +1 > > There is no way I'm applying this. Also it has a bunch of device specific generic netlink which was a red flag for me.
