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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>,
	Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
	Kamil Alkhouri <kamil.alkhouri@hs-offenburg.de>,
	ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 2/7] net: dsa: Add DSA driver for Hirschmann Hellcreek switches
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 09:56:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6cf8acc5-a6aa-5e77-f0a3-09d7d7af1a82@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201016154336.s2acp5auctn2zzis@skbuf>

On 10/16/20 8:43 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 02:11:06PM +0200, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote:
>> When VLAN awareness is disabled, the packet is still classified with the
>> pvid. But, later all rules regarding VLANs (except for the PCP field)
>> are ignored then. So, the programmed pvid doesn't matter in this case.
> 
> Ok, clear now.
> 
>> The only way to implement the non-filtering bridge behavior is this
>> flag. However, this has some more implications. For instance when
>> there's a non filtering bridge, then standalone mode doesn't work
>> anymore due to the VLAN unawareness. This is not a problem at the
>> moment, because there are only two ports. But, later when there are more
>> ports, then having two ports in a non-filtering bridge and one in
>> standalone mode doesn't work. That's another limitation that needs to be
>> considered when adding more ports later on.
> 
> Well, then you have feedback to bring to the hardware engineers when
> switches with more than 2 user ports will be instantiated.
> 
>> Besides that problem everything else seem to work now in accordance to
>> the expected Linux behavior with roper restrictions in place.
> 
> Ok, that's great.

I probably missed parts of this long discussion, but for this generation
of switches, does that mean that you will only allow a bridge with
vlan_filtering=1 to be configured and also refuse toggling of
vlan_filtering at run time?
-- 
Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-16 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-04 11:29 [PATCH net-next v6 0/7] Hirschmann Hellcreek DSA driver Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-04 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next v6 1/7] net: dsa: Add tag handling for Hirschmann Hellcreek switches Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-04 11:56   ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-05  6:14     ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-04 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next v6 2/7] net: dsa: Add DSA driver " Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-04 12:56   ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-06  6:09     ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-06  9:20       ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-06 10:13         ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-06 11:32           ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-06 12:37             ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-06 13:23             ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-06 13:42               ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-06 14:05                 ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-06 14:10                   ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-06 13:56               ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-06 14:13                 ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-11 12:29                 ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-11 15:30                   ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-12  5:37                     ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-16 12:11                       ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-16 15:43                         ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-16 16:56                           ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2020-10-17 10:06                             ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-17 15:57                             ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-08 11:49           ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-09  5:58             ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-04 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next v6 3/7] net: dsa: hellcreek: Add PTP clock support Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-04 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next v6 4/7] net: dsa: hellcreek: Add support for hardware timestamping Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-04 14:30   ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-06  6:27     ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-06  7:28       ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-06 13:30         ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-06 13:32           ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-06 13:56             ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-06 14:01               ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-07 10:39                 ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-07 10:54                   ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-08  8:34                     ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-08  9:44                       ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-08 10:01                         ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-08 12:55                           ` Kamil Alkhouri
2020-10-08 15:09                             ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-12 12:53                               ` Kamil Alkhouri
2020-10-12 21:42                                 ` Richard Cochran
2020-10-14  9:57                                   ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-14 11:01                                     ` Richard Cochran
2020-10-14 11:37                                       ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-04 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next v6 5/7] net: dsa: hellcreek: Add PTP status LEDs Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-04 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next v6 6/7] dt-bindings: Add vendor prefix for Hirschmann Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-04 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next v6 7/7] dt-bindings: net: dsa: Add documentation for Hellcreek switches Kurt Kanzenbach

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