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From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail•com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>
Cc: sfeldma@gmail•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org, davem@davemloft•net,
	f.fainelli@gmail•com, roopa@cumulusnetworks•com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/2] Add new switchdev device class
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 01:09:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55DEC5B7.5040505@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150827074418.GL2228@nanopsycho.orion>

[...]

>>
>> The structure I used previously which looks like your prototype I think,
>>
>> (https://github.com/jrfastab/rocker-net-next/blob/master/include/uapi/linux/if_flow.h)
>>
>> * [NFL_TABLE_IDENTIFIER_TYPE]
>> * [NFL_TABLE_IDENTIFIER]
>> * [NFL_TABLE_TABLES]
>> *     [NFL_TABLE]
>> *	 [NFL_TABLE_ATTR_NAME]
>> *	 [NFL_TABLE_ATTR_UID]
>> *	 [NFL_TABLE_ATTR_SOURCE]
>> *	 [NFL_TABLE_ATTR_APPLY]
>> *	 [NFL_TABLE_ATTR_SIZE]
>> *	 [NFL_TABLE_ATTR_MATCHES]
>> *	   [NFL_FIELD_REF]
>> *	     [NFL_FIELD_REF_INSTANCE]
>> *	     [NFL_FIELD_REF_HEADER]
>> *	     [NFL_FIELD_REF_FIELD]
>> *	     [NFL_FIELD_REF_MASK]
>> *	     [NFL_FIELD_REF_TYPE]
>> *	   [...]
>> *	 [NFL_TABLE_ATTR_ACTIONS]
>> *	     [NFL_ACTION_ATTR_UID]
>> *	     [...]
>> *     [NFL_TABLE]
>> *       [...]
>> *
>>
>> This is well-typed per Dave's comment. And because its Netlink based it
>> can be easily extended as needed. The above gives basic information on
>> the table. Sure it could stand to have some other entries in it but I
>> never needed them for my capabilities/resource discovery. We could argue
>> about removing some if they are too specific to my use cases.
> 
> I guess you are talking about read-only interface right?
> 

Correct. read-only.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-27  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-27  7:16 [RFC PATCH net-next 0/2] Add new switchdev device class sfeldma
2015-08-27  7:16 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 1/2] switchdev: create " sfeldma
2015-08-27  7:16 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 2/2] rocker: register each switch as a switchdev sfeldma
2015-08-27  7:27 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 0/2] Add new switchdev device class Jiri Pirko
2015-08-27  7:43   ` John Fastabend
2015-08-27  7:51     ` Jiri Pirko
2015-08-27  8:14       ` John Fastabend
2015-08-27  8:17   ` Scott Feldman
2015-08-27  8:41     ` Jiri Pirko
2015-08-27  7:36 ` John Fastabend
2015-08-27  7:44   ` Jiri Pirko
2015-08-27  8:09     ` John Fastabend [this message]
2015-08-27  8:23   ` Scott Feldman
2015-08-27  7:45 ` Andrew Lunn
2015-08-27  8:42   ` Scott Feldman
2015-08-27  9:06     ` Andrew Lunn
2015-08-27 16:41       ` Scott Feldman
2015-08-28 11:52         ` Andrew Lunn
2015-08-27 13:54 ` John W. Linville
2015-08-27 23:25 ` David Miller
2015-08-28  2:13 ` Arad, Ronen
2015-08-28 16:55   ` Florian Fainelli

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