Re: [PATCH net-next v15 2/4] net: dsa: tag_ks8995: Add the KS8995 tag handling

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:18:42 +0200 Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 3:22 PM <netdev-bot+sashiko@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Two details worth noting: this only happens with a conduit MAC that strips
> > the non-standard 0x810X TPID into metadata while preserving the port bits,
> > which was not demonstrated here, and the same OUT_BAD outcome already
> > applies to other VLAN-metadata DSA taggers such as the tag_8021q family,
> > where proto becomes ETH_P_XDSA and also has no case in the switch. Should
> > the receive path here rely only on the in-band tag, or is degraded hashing
> > on the conduit acceptable for this configuration?  
> 
> This is just getting too fringe. What about we merge this and look into this
> when we have a user who actually want to do these things on this
> old chip?
> 
> I don't think this is a blocker.

Yes, sorry, I need to modify the emails to call it out more clearly.
We only really care about issues >=Medium severity, but if there are
any such issues found we send out the low ones too just in case.