Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 8/9] switchdev: introduce Netlink API

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 06:31:12 -0400

On 09/20/14 04:10, Scott Feldman wrote:
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> On Sep 19, 2014, at 8:41 PM, Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> Existing rtnetlink isn’t available to swdev without some kind of snooping the echoes from the various kernel components
>(bridge, fib, etc).

You have made this claim before Scott and I am still not following.
Why do we need to echo things to get FDB or FIB to work? device ops for 
FDB offload for example already exist. I think they need to be
revamped, but that consensus can be reasonably reached. Why do we
need this flow api for such activities?

cheers,
jamal