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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Juergen Borleis <jbe@pengutronix.de>
Cc: kernel@pengutronix.de, f.fainelli@gmail.com,
	vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] net: dsa: add support for the SMSC-LAN9303 tagging format
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 15:15:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170410131533.GA19820@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201704100918.03272.jbe@pengutronix.de>

> Hmm. In the transmit path the driver adds four bytes of explicit data after 
> the two MACs to define the outgoing port. And the hardware uses the first 
> TAG after the two MACs to forward the packet to a specific port. How should 
> a userspace app manipulate this behaviour?

Juergen

Yes, you are right. I got thinking about the Marvell driver, can it be
made to do bad things by user space, and released my own error.

There is nothing to worry about here, sorry for the noise.

     Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-10 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-07  8:14 [PATCHv2] net: dsa: add SMSC/Microchip LAN9303 three port ethernet switch driver Juergen Borleis
2017-04-07  8:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] net: dsa: add support for the SMSC-LAN9303 tagging format Juergen Borleis
2017-04-07 13:06   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-04-10  7:18     ` Juergen Borleis
2017-04-10 13:15       ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2017-04-07  8:15 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] net: dsa: add new DSA switch driver for the SMSC-LAN9303 Juergen Borleis
2017-04-07 13:35   ` David Miller
2017-04-07 14:29   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-04-10  7:44     ` Juergen Borleis
2017-04-10 13:25       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-04-07  8:15 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] net: dsa: LAN9303: add I2C managed mode support Juergen Borleis
2017-04-07 13:40   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-04-10  7:58     ` Juergen Borleis
2017-04-07  8:15 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] net: dsa: LAN9303: add MDIO " Juergen Borleis
2017-04-07 14:19   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-04-07 14:27     ` David Miller
2017-04-07 14:54   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-04-07 15:05   ` Andrew Lunn

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