Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Sep 2018 11:43:31 +0200 | From | Jiri Pirko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: Expose tagging protocol to user-space |
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Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 08:09:02PM CEST, f.fainelli@gmail.com wrote: >There is no way for user-space to know what a given DSA network device's >tagging protocol is. Expose this information through a dsa/tagging >attribute which reflects the tagging protocol currently in use. > >This is helpful for configuration (e.g: none behaves dramatically >different wrt. bridges) as well as for packet capture tools when there >is not a proper Ethernet type available.
Hmm, I wonder. It this something that varies between ports of an individual ASIC? Or is it rather something defined per-ASIC. If so, this looks more like a devlink-api material.
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