From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:13:36 +0200 > I agree with Stephen here, IMO you have to take note of how STP has progressed > and that bringing it in the kernel was a mistake, these days mstpd has an active > community and much better support which is being extended. This looks best implemented > in user-space in my opinion with minimal kernel changes to support it. You could simply > open a packet socket with a filter and work through that, you don't need new netlink > sockets. I'm not familiar with the protocol so can't really be the judge of that, if > you present a good argument for needing a new netlink socket for these packets - then > sure, ok. With a userland implementation, what approach do you suggest for DSA/switchdev offload of this stuff?
