[Intel-wired-lan] [net-next PATCH 5/6] i40e: Add TX and RX support in switchdev mode.

[Samudrala, Sridhar]

On 1/3/2017 3:03 PM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Samudrala, Sridhar
> <sridhar.samudrala at intel.com> wrote:
>> On 12/30/2016 7:31 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>>> Are you exposing switchdev ops for the representators? didn't see that
>>> or maybe it's in the 4th patch which didn't make it to the list?
>> Not at this time. In the future patches when we offload fdb/vlan
>> functionality, we could use switchdev ops.
> but wait, this is the switchdev mode... even before doing any
> offloading, you want (need) your representor netdevices to have the
> same HW ID marking they are all ports of the same ASIC, this you can
> do with the switchdev parent ID attribute.
OK. I will add switchdev_port_attr_get() with PORT_PARENT_ID support in v3.

Thanks
Sridhar