Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: dsa: make "label" property optional for dsa2

[Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>]

Hi Jiri,

Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> writes:

>>    # cat /etc/udev/rules.d/90-net-dsa.rules
>>    SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="dsa", PROGRAM="/lib/udev/dsanitizer $attr{phys_switch_id} $attr{phys_port_id}", NAME="$result"
>
> I know this is kind of confusing, but phys_port_id is to be used to
> indicate same physical port that is shared by multiple netdevices- for
> example sr-iov usecase. For switchdev usecase, you should use
> phys_port_name.
>
> I will add some documentation to kernel regarding this. But I see that
> net/dsa/slave.c already implements .ndo_get_phys_port_id :(
>
> I recently made changes in udev so it names the switch ports according
> to phys_port_name, out of the box, without need for any rules:
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/4506/commits/c960caa0c2a620fc506c6f0f7b6c40eeace48e4d

Thanks for the details. So if I understand correctly, what will be found
in phys_port_name will be used as is by udev to name the interface?

Extra question: shouldn't phys_port_{id,name} be switchdev attributes in
addition to SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_PARENT_ID?

> I guess that it should be enough for you to implement
> ndo_get_phys_port_name.

Well, if this name must be unique on a system, it's not likely to happen
until we agree that we use an ugly tXsYpZ template where X is a tree ID,
or we assign system-wide unique IDs to switches, which requires a bit of
changes.

I'm thinking, since DSA slaves are switchdev users, can't we all use a
switchdev helper to optionally get a system-wide unique name for a given
switch port? e.g. a template such as "swp%d"? I'd prefer that switchdev
and DSA do not diverge much when it comes to implement such attributes.

But again, this is not related to this patch ;-)

Thanks,

        Vivien