Hi,
(Guy, I wrote you a separate email about that nearly 2 years ago and got
side tracked for that long on other stuff).
A number of Ethernet switches from Broadcom, Marvell, Microchip,
Qualcomm, Lantiq/Intel, etc. utilize proprietary tags that are processed
by these switches in-line with the Eth
On 1/17/19 3:41 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2019, at 2:39 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>
>> A number of Ethernet switches from Broadcom, Marvell, Microchip,
>> Qualcomm, Lantiq/Intel, etc. utilize proprietary tags that are processed
>> by these switches in-line
Le 1/17/19 à 5:24 PM, Guy Harris a écrit :
> On Jan 17, 2019, at 4:56 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>
>> These Ethernet adapters can be regular/normal Ethernet adapters, e.g:
>> e1000e/igb/ixgbe on a PC connected to an Ethernet switch via GMII (for
>> data path), and contr
Le 1/17/19 à 6:29 PM, Guy Harris a écrit :
> On Jan 17, 2019, at 6:01 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>
>> Correct. The other ports are exposed as regular Ethernet network devices.
>
> OK, I've updated a comment in the pull request for that.
>
> So, in any pre-4.19 ker
On 1/17/2019 6:56 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2019, at 2:39 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>
>> DSA currently supports the following tagging protocols (details can be
>> found under net/dsa/tag_*.c in Linux source for exactly length and offset
>> w
On 1/17/2019 8:12 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2019, at 7:49 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>
>> Le 1/17/19 à 6:29 PM, Guy Harris a écrit :
>>> On Jan 17, 2019, at 6:01 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>>
>>>> Correct. The other ports are exposed as re
On 1/18/19 6:13 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:
>
> 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:
>
>> 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 userl
On 1/20/2019 11:52 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 10:19:04AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> On 1/18/19 6:13 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:
>>>
>>> Guy Harris wrote:
>>> >> OK, then requesting 10 DLT values, one per-tag is reas
