From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753325AbbAVAVM (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2015 19:21:12 -0500 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.11.231]:39093 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752035AbbAVAVA (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2015 19:21:00 -0500 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1702448.pOVnDx4KzI@wuerfel> References: <1420754626-30121-1-git-send-email-wstephen@codeaurora.org> <2318041.V2OJAPu7gC@wuerfel> <3ad19b16fe5c58612479f70c052d0045.squirrel@www.codeaurora.org> <1702448.pOVnDx4KzI@wuerfel> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:20:59 -0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethernet: atheros: Add nss-gmac driver From: wstephen@codeaurora.org To: "Arnd Bergmann" Cc: wstephen@codeaurora.org, jcliburn@gmail.com, grant.likely@linaro.org, robh+dt@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22-4.el6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Right. For review purposes, I think it would be helpful to split this > huge patch into several steps then: > > - add a base driver > - add the overlay interface > - add the nss driver > > Ideally more of them. The nss-drv driver is open sourced but we are currently not planning to upstream to linux kernel yet because we are still actively adding new features https://www.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/qsdk/oss/lklm/nss-drv > Thanks for the description, this sounds very interesting indeed. I do > have more questions though: how do you get the rules into the NSS driver? > Does this get handled transparently by the openvswitch driver or > did you have to add new user interfaces for it? > > Arnd > No, we are not using openvswitch. We have a connection manager monitoring conntrack events and creates rules then send it through the interface built in nss-drv. Thanks, Stephen