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authorJiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>2014-11-28 14:34:17 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-12-02 20:01:20 -0800
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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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+#
+# 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.