On 1/18/19 6:13 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:
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> Guy Harris wrote:
> >> OK, then requesting 10 DLT values, one per-tag is reasonable?
>
> > Yes.
>
> This is totally how it should be done.
>
> Guy, do we want to allocate 16 or 32 values, aligned, so that the
> it be can DLT_TAG_BASE +
On 1/17/19 9:55 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2019, at 9:16 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
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>> On 1/17/2019 8:12 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
>>
>>> But if /sys/class/net/{device}/dsa doesn't exist in pre-4.19 kernels, how
>>> can you determine, from userland, whether a device is a DSA management-po
On Jan 18, 2019, at 6:13 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:
> Guy, do we want to allocate 16 or 32 values, aligned, so that the
> it be can DLT_TAG_BASE + DSA_TAG_xx maps?
"Aligned" would mean you want to support DLT_TAG_BASE | DSA_TAG_xx; alignment
is necessary to support ORing in the tag type, but
On Jan 18, 2019, at 10:24 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> In pre-4.19 kernels there was really no way you could reliably tell a
> DSA management interface apart from a regular Ethernet device in the
> system, even by scanning the network device's relationship through
> ifindex etc.
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