Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 2 authors, 2020-12-17

Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 3/5] net: dsa: Link aggregation support

From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Date: 2020-12-16 18:03:49

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 05:00:54PM +0100, Tobias Waldekranz wrote:
+	/* Drivers that benefit from having an ID associated with each
+	 * offloaded LAG should set this to the maximum number of
+	 * supported IDs. DSA will then maintain a mapping of _at
+	 * least_ these many IDs, accessible to drivers via
+	 * dsa_tree_lag_id().
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
           you named it dsa_lag_id() in the end.
+	 */
+	unsigned int		num_lag_ids;
[...]
+	/* No IDs left, which is OK. Some drivers do not need it. The
+	 * ones that do, e.g. mv88e6xxx, will discover that
+	 * dsa_tree_lag_id returns an error for this device when
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
           same thing here.
+	 * joining the LAG. The driver can then return -EOPNOTSUPP
+	 * back to DSA, which will fall back to a software LAG.
+	 */
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