On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 12:27:25AM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

I really like that. Would you mind adding this?

Yes. I'll send another version to Jiri today after testing and hopefully
we can submit today / tomorrow. I think Linus is still undecided about
-rc8 and I would like to get this in 4.10.

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Quick follow-up question: How can I quickly find out the hw limitations
via the kernel api?

That's a good question. Currently, you can't. However, we already have a
mechanism in place to read device's capabilities from the firmware and
we can (and should) expose some of them to the user. The best API for
that would be devlink, as it can represent the entire device as opposed
to only a port netdev like other tools.

We're also working on making the pipeline more visible to the user, so
that it would be easier for users to understand and debug their
networks. I believe a colleague of mine (Matty) presented this during
the last netdev conference.

Thanks, I will look it up!

Found it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwzaKXWIelc&feature=youtu.be&list=PLrninrcyMo3IkTvpvM2LK6gn4NdbFhI0G&t=6892