Re: [RFC net-next Patch 0/3] net: bridge: mrp: Add support for Media Redundancy Protocol(MRP)

[David Miller]

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:13:36 +0200

> I agree with Stephen here, IMO you have to take note of how STP has progressed
> and that bringing it in the kernel was a mistake, these days mstpd has an active
> community and much better support which is being extended. This looks best implemented
> in user-space in my opinion with minimal kernel changes to support it. You could simply
> open a packet socket with a filter and work through that, you don't need new netlink
> sockets. I'm not familiar with the protocol so can't really be the judge of that, if
> you present a good argument for needing a new netlink socket for these packets - then
> sure, ok.

With a userland implementation, what approach do you suggest for DSA/switchdev offload
of this stuff?