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| author |   Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> | 2014-11-28 14:34:17 +0100 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-12-02 20:01:20 -0800 |
| commit | 007f790c8276271de26416f90d55561bcc96588a (patch) | |
| tree | 03a55b7897402e9daa8af64ea2c81d5236f77367 /net/switchdev/Kconfig | |
| parent | net: rename netdev_phys_port_id to more generic name (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-007f790c8276271de26416f90d55561bcc96588a.tar.xz linux-dev-007f790c8276271de26416f90d55561bcc96588a.zip | |
net: introduce generic switch devices support
The goal of this is to provide a possibility to support various switch
chips. Drivers should implement relevant ndos to do so. Now there is
only one ndo defined:
- for getting physical switch id is in place.
Note that user can use random port netdevice to access the switch.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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| -rw-r--r-- | net/switchdev/Kconfig | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/switchdev/Kconfig b/net/switchdev/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..155754588fd6 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/switchdev/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# +# Configuration for Switch device support +# + +config NET_SWITCHDEV + boolean "Switch (and switch-ish) device support (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on INET + ---help--- + This module provides glue between core networking code and device + drivers in order to support hardware switch chips in very generic + meaning of the word "switch". This include devices supporting L2/L3 but + also various flow offloading chips, including switches embedded into + SR-IOV NICs. |