On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 11:01:22AM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > > Okay. I see it more as changing mode of operation of hardware and thus has > not really anything to do with networking. If you say you change ethernet to > infiniband it has something to do with networking, sure. But I am fine with > this, I just thought the code size could be reduced by adding this to sysfs > quite a lot. I don't have a strong opinion on this.
there is already a way to change eth/ib via echo 'eth' > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/mlx4_core/0000:02:00.0/mlx4_port1 sounds like this is another way to achieve the same? Why not hide echo/cat in iproute2 instead of adding parallel netlink api? Or this is for switches instead of nics? Then why it's not adding to switchdev?
