Re: [patch net-next v3 15/17] bridge: add new hwmode swdev
From: Roopa Prabhu <hidden>
Date: 2014-11-25 16:03:37
On 11/25/14, 2:28 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
From: Scott Feldman <redacted> Current hwmode settings are "vepa" or "veb". These are for NIC interfaces with basic bridging function offloaded to HW. Add new "swdev" for full switch device offloads.
still voting for a generic feature flag like NETIF_F_HW_OFFLOAD for use by bridge/bond/vxlan. I can resubmit my patch that does this.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <redacted> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> --- new in v3 --- include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h index da17e45..60425ca 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ struct __fdb_entry { #define BRIDGE_MODE_VEB 0 /* Default loopback mode */ #define BRIDGE_MODE_VEPA 1 /* 802.1Qbg defined VEPA mode */ +#define BRIDGE_MODE_SWDEV 2 /* Full switch device offload */ /* Bridge management nested attributes * [IFLA_AF_SPEC] = {