Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 14/24] net: dsa: Introduce driver for NXP SJA1105 5-port L2 switch

Hi Andrew,

All I'm saying is that at this point in time (patch 14/24), the driver
is being introduced with DSA_TAG_PROTO_NONE. Then support for traffic
and switch tagging is added later on (18/24). I was just explaining
what can be done with the driver up to this point in the patchset.

Thanks,
-Vladimir


On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 at 18:43, Andrew Lunn [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 04:28:12AM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:

quoted

At this moment the following is supported:
* Link state management through phylib
* Autonomous L2 forwarding managed through iproute2 bridge commands. The
  switch ports are initialized in a mode where they can only talk to the
  CPU port. However, IP termination must be done currently through the
  master netdevice.

Please could you explain that last sentence in more detail. Normally
the master device is just a dumb pipe. Nothing, except tcpdump,
uses it.

Thanks

     Andrew