Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] bus: fsl-mc: add restool userspace support

On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 10:30:01AM +0000, Laurentiu Tudor wrote:

Hello,

My 2c below.

On 04/04/2018 03:42 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:

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I hear you.  It is more complicated this way...having all these individual
objects vs just a single "bundle" of them that represents a NIC.  But, that's
the way the DPAA2 hardware is, and we're implementing kernel support for
the hardware as it is.

Hi Stuart

I see we are not making any progress here.

So what i suggest is you post the kernel code and configuration tool
concept to netdev for a full review. You want reviews from David
Miller, Jiri Pirko, Jakub Kicinski, David Ahern, etc.

I think that the discussion steered too much towards networking related 
topics, while this ioctl doesn't have much to do with networking.

Hi Laurentiu

So i can use switchdev without it? I can modprobe the switchdev
driver, all the physical interfaces will appear, and i can use ip addr
add etc. I do not need to use a user space tool at all in order to use
the network functionality?

    Andrew