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From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Allan Nielsen <Allan.Nielsen@microsemi.com>,
	razvan.stefanescu@nxp.com, po.liu@nxp.com,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/8] net: mscc: Add initial Ocelot switch support
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:52:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180424185239.GG19011@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180330145008.GE28244@lunn.ch>

I realise now that I didn't reply to this comment:

On 30/03/2018 16:50:08+0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > The fact is that ocelot doesn't have separate controls. The port is
> > either forwarding or not. If it is not forwarding, then there is nothing
> > to tell the HW to do.
> 
> Think about the following sequence:
> 
> ip link set lan0 up
> 
> After this command, i expect to see packets on lan0 arrive at the
> host, tcpdump to work, etc. This probably means the port is in
> 'forwarding' mode, or for B53, STP is disabled.
> 

On Ocelot, forwarding packets to the host (i.e. forwarding frames
received on the port to the cpu port) is separate from bridging ports
together. So after that command, the host can receive packets on lan0.


-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-24 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-23 20:11 [PATCH net-next 0/8] Microsemi Ocelot switch support Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-23 20:11 ` [PATCH net-next 1/8] net: phy: Add initial support for Microsemi Ocelot internal PHYs Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-23 20:29   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-23 21:08   ` Florian Fainelli
2018-03-28 16:18     ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-23 20:11 ` [PATCH net-next 2/8] dt-bindings: net: add DT bindings for Microsemi MIIM Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-23 21:46   ` Florian Fainelli
2018-03-23 20:11 ` [PATCH net-next 3/8] net: mscc: Add MDIO driver Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-23 20:49   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-29 14:05     ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-29 14:40       ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-29 14:53         ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-29 14:57           ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-23 21:51   ` Florian Fainelli
2018-03-29 14:14     ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-23 20:11 ` [PATCH net-next 4/8] dt-bindings: net: add DT bindings for Microsemi Ocelot Switch Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-23 21:01   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-23 21:11   ` Florian Fainelli
2018-03-26 22:25     ` Rob Herring
2018-03-26 22:50       ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-27  0:34         ` Rob Herring
2018-03-26 22:25   ` Rob Herring
2018-03-23 20:11 ` [PATCH net-next 5/8] net: mscc: Add initial Ocelot switch support Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-23 21:25   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-23 21:41   ` Florian Fainelli
2018-03-30 12:45     ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-30 13:54       ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-30 14:16         ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-30 14:50           ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-31 22:47             ` Florian Fainelli
2018-04-24 18:52             ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
2018-03-26 19:13   ` kbuild test robot
2018-03-30  7:02   ` Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-23 20:11 ` [PATCH net-next 6/8] MIPS: mscc: Add switch to ocelot Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-23 21:17   ` Florian Fainelli
2018-03-23 21:22     ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-23 21:33       ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-23 21:44         ` Florian Fainelli
2018-03-23 22:06           ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-23 22:11             ` Florian Fainelli
2018-03-24 14:48               ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-23 20:11 ` [PATCH net-next 7/8] MIPS: mscc: connect phys to ports on ocelot_pcb123 Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-23 20:11 ` [PATCH net-next 8/8] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for Microsemi Ethernet switches Alexandre Belloni

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