Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:07:45 -0700

On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:55:06 -0400 (EDT)
David Miller <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From: Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 17:14:04 +0200
> 
> > Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:56:15AM CEST, [email-masked] wrote:
> >>Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >>> This patch adds the support of the 6WIND SHULTI switch. It is a software
> >>> switch doing L2 forwarding.
> >>> 
> >>> This first version implements the minimum needed to get the device working.
> >>> It also implements, via switchdev and rtnetlink, bridge forwarding offload,
> >>> including FDB static entries, FDB learning and FDB ageing.
> >>
> >>How is this different from net/bridge?
> >>How is this different from openvswitch?
> > 
> > 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
> 
> There is no way I'm applying this.

Also it has a bunch of device specific generic netlink which was
a red flag for me.