From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:59:34 +0200
> Le 27/04/2016 18:55, David Miller a écrit : >> From: Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> > [snip] >>> 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 > I don't think so because a userspace can receive all the bridge/ovs settings > by > mean of netlink mirror, without the need for this driver at all. You can say whatever you want, but the facilities you are adding to this driver enables proprietary userland SDK components. And this is precisely what we are trying to avoid by having a clean, fully featured switch device model in the kernel. It is against your interestes of upstreaming your driver to continue denying what your changes facilitate. THanks.
