[ovs-dev] [patch net-next RFC 12/12] rocker: introduce rocker switch driver

Thomas Graf tgraf at suug.ch
Sat Aug 23 14:04:50 UTC 2014


On 08/21/14 at 06:19pm, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> This patch introduces the first driver to benefit from the switchdev
> infrastructure and to implement newly introduced switch ndos. This is a
> driver for emulated switch chip implemented in qemu:
> https://github.com/sfeldma/qemu-rocker/

The design looks very clean. I noticed that the TLV API is almost an
exact dupliate of the Netlink attributes API. Any specific reason for
not reusing lib/nlattr.c and add what is missing?



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