Re: [Bridge] [PATCH v2 0/3] Add NETIF_F_HW_BR_CAP feature

2019-08-27 Thread Horatiu Vultur
The 08/26/2019 14:38, Andrew Lunn wrote: > External E-Mail > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 10:11:12AM +0200, Horatiu Vultur wrote: > > When a network port is added to a bridge then the port is added in > > promisc mode. Some HW that has bridge capabilities(can learn, forward, > > flood etc the

Re: [Bridge] [PATCH v2 0/3] Add NETIF_F_HW_BR_CAP feature

2019-08-26 Thread David Miller
From: Andrew Lunn Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:38:11 +0200 > I'm still not convinced this is needed. The model is, the hardware is > there to accelerate what Linux can do in software. Any peculiarities > of the accelerator should be hidden in the driver. If the accelerator > can do its job without