On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 02:03:40PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > Completely crazy and outlandish idea, I know, but what's wrong with > > doing this in DSA? > > I really do not have a problem with that approach however other stacked > devices like 802.1Q do not do that. It certainly scales a lot better to > do this within DSA rather than sprinkling DSA specific knowledge > throughout the network stack. Maybe for "configuration less" stacked > devices such as DSA, 802.1Q (bridge ports?), bond etc. it would be > acceptable to ensure that the lower device is always brought up?
For upper interfaces with more than one lower (bridge, bond) I'm not so sure. For uppers with a single lower (DSA, 8021q), it's pretty much a no-brainer to me. Question is, where to code this? I think it's ok to leave it in DSA, then 8021q could copy it as well if there was a need.
