On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 10:19 -0800, John Fastabend wrote: > > > > I want to see a unified API so that user space control applications (RSTP, TRILL?) > > can use one set of netlink calls for both software bridge and hardware offloaded > > bridges. Does this proposal meet that requirement? > > I dont see any issues with those requirements being met. > Jamal, so why do "They have to be different calls"? I'm not so sure anymore... > moving to RTM_FDB_XXXENTRY saved some refactoring in the bridge module but that > is just cosmetic. I may not want to use the s/ware bridge i.e I may want to use h/ware bridge. I may want to use both. So there are 3 variations there. You need at least 1.5 bits to represent them if you are going to use the same interface. There may be features in either h/ware but not in s/ware and vice-versa. A single interface with flags which say this applies to hware:sware:both would be good, but it may be harder to achieve - thats why i suggested they be different. cheers, jamal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
