From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Lunn Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: dp83867: Port mirroring support in the DP83867 TI's PHY driver Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 22:16:24 +0100 Message-ID: <20170201211624.GH7395@lunn.ch> References: <1485960215-5148-1-git-send-email-lukma@denx.de> <20170201171610.GC7395@lunn.ch> <2f3766f0-42df-6aab-dda1-14022c57fb30@gmail.com> <20170201220500.29d478aa@jawa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Florian Fainelli Cc: Lukasz Majewski , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , "David S. Miller" , Mugunthan V N , Karicheri Muralidharan , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Eric Engestrom , netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Kishon Vijay Abraham I , Grygorii Strashko , devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org > What a poorly chosen name though... in Ethernet world, port mirroring > means the ability to capture traffic from a vector of ports and copying > it verbatim (or sampled) towards a capture port, aka the mirror port... Ack. We should avoid "port mirroring" in what ever patch we decide upon. Andrew -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752731AbdBAVQc (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2017 16:16:32 -0500 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch ([178.209.37.122]:52869 "EHLO vps0.lunn.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752341AbdBAVQb (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2017 16:16:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 22:16:24 +0100 From: Andrew Lunn To: Florian Fainelli Cc: Lukasz Majewski , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , "David S. Miller" , Mugunthan V N , Karicheri Muralidharan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Engestrom , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Kishon Vijay Abraham I , Grygorii Strashko , devicetree@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: dp83867: Port mirroring support in the DP83867 TI's PHY driver Message-ID: <20170201211624.GH7395@lunn.ch> References: <1485960215-5148-1-git-send-email-lukma@denx.de> <20170201171610.GC7395@lunn.ch> <2f3766f0-42df-6aab-dda1-14022c57fb30@gmail.com> <20170201220500.29d478aa@jawa> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > What a poorly chosen name though... in Ethernet world, port mirroring > means the ability to capture traffic from a vector of ports and copying > it verbatim (or sampled) towards a capture port, aka the mirror port... Ack. We should avoid "port mirroring" in what ever patch we decide upon. Andrew