From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>
To: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail•com>, "Arad, Ronen" <ronen.arad@intel•com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>, Netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
roopa <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us•net>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 11/18] switchdev: remove old netdev_switch_port_bridge_setlink
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:03:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <551BDE8F.9040907@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE4R7bCeRxP2Kg_4jg4v6m6S+3NFpMcxO4vC-WeDG48GPkCtuw@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/31/15 22:38, Scott Feldman wrote:
>
> It sounds like vendor extensions need to be supported someway,
> someday.
I agree. This is one of those impendance mismatch things. There are
scenarios where the feature may not be generic enough. But whatever
feature it is - eventually we should get it back into mainstream.
The danger of backdoors that Jiri alludes to is there.
> Maybe let's table vendor extensions for the time being and
> continue our focus on shared infrastructure: the things we know are
> common for all vendors. We still have a lot of work just getting the
> common bits working. Then we can take additional features one at a
> time and see if they're shared or vendor-specific. In the meantime,
> there are always back doors such as genl for vendor to use; there is
> nothing preventing that.
>
And now i disagree. Did you read the back of your netdev tshirt? Quote:
---
I also don't buy the argument that "people can put arbitrary changes
into their kernel to do stuff like that".
---
Vendors can do whatever they want. We just should not be aiding them to
put proprietary shit. I want to stop coding around SDKs. Help me.
cheers,
jamal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-01 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-30 8:40 [PATCH net-next 00/18] switchdev: spring cleanup sfeldma
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 01/18] switchdev: introduce get/set attrs ops sfeldma
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 02/18] switchdev: flesh out get/set attr ops sfeldma
2015-03-30 11:55 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-30 18:32 ` Arad, Ronen
2015-03-30 20:46 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-30 21:00 ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-31 0:22 ` Arad, Ronen
2015-03-31 0:38 ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-31 15:37 ` roopa
[not found] ` <CAJieiUh0Svt3LZsgoi7RaV8Be0eFyRvoJU3BmW7v3fEvwfXiHg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-03-31 16:05 ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 03/18] switchdev: convert parent_id_get to swdev attr get sfeldma
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 04/18] switchdev: convert STP update to swdev attr set sfeldma
2015-03-30 11:54 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-30 13:47 ` roopa
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 05/18] switchdev: add bridge port flags attr sfeldma
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 06/18] rocker: use swdev get/set attr for bridge port flags sfeldma
2015-03-30 12:01 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 07/18] switchdev: add new swdev bridge setlink sfeldma
2015-03-30 12:31 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 08/18] rocker: cut over to new swdev_port_bridge_setlink sfeldma
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 09/18] bonding: " sfeldma
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 10/18] team: " sfeldma
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 11/18] switchdev: remove old netdev_switch_port_bridge_setlink sfeldma
2015-03-30 13:23 ` roopa
2015-03-30 20:20 ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-30 20:46 ` Arad, Ronen
2015-03-30 21:27 ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-31 0:08 ` Arad, Ronen
2015-03-31 0:44 ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-31 5:52 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-31 19:15 ` Arad, Ronen
2015-03-31 21:52 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-31 23:32 ` Arad, Ronen
2015-04-01 2:38 ` Scott Feldman
2015-04-01 12:03 ` Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]
2015-04-01 17:56 ` Scott Feldman
2015-04-02 1:01 ` Florian Fainelli
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 12/18] switchdev: remove unused netdev_switch_port_bridge_dellink sfeldma
2015-03-30 13:23 ` roopa
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 13/18] switchdev: remove unused NETIF_F_HW_SWITCH_OFFLOAD sfeldma
2015-03-30 13:38 ` roopa
2015-03-30 20:48 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2015-03-30 21:20 ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-31 15:34 ` roopa
[not found] ` <CAJieiUiL4QRQAC30=bkYadYD2L2cOcn7mNLV98uH3Go0exMO+A@mail.gmail.com>
2015-03-31 16:03 ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 14/18] switchdev: add new swdev_port_bridge_getlink sfeldma
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 15/18] rocker: cut over to " sfeldma
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 16/18] switchdev: rename netdev_switch_fib_* to swdev_fib_* sfeldma
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 17/18] switchdev: rename netdev_switch_notifier_* to swdev_notifier_* sfeldma
2015-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH net-next 18/18] switchdev: bring documentation up-to-date sfeldma
2015-03-30 12:00 ` [PATCH net-next 00/18] switchdev: spring cleanup Jiri Pirko
2015-03-30 13:11 ` Andy Gospodarek
2015-03-30 15:00 ` roopa
2015-03-30 16:11 ` Or Gerlitz
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