On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:58:50 -0800 "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Stephen Hemminger > <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Doing this in priv flags bloats what is a limited resource (# of bits). > > Agreed. I tried to avoid it but saw no other option for addressing > this during initialization properly without requirng a userspace > upgrade. Replacing one Xen hack for another doesn't seem like great progress. I would rather see an API change as needed because there are other things like setting STP parameters which might also want to be part of initial device add.
