From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>,
Karicheri Muralidharan <m-karicheri2@ti.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>,
Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org
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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170201211624.GH7395@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a287bc1e-3693-02d3-4c58-f1369144efd1@gmail.com>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-01 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-01 14:43 [PATCH] net: phy: dp83867: Port mirroring support in the DP83867 TI's PHY driver Lukasz Majewski
2017-02-01 17:16 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-02-01 19:05 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-02-01 21:05 ` Lukasz Majewski
2017-02-01 21:12 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-02-01 21:16 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2017-02-01 21:14 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-02-01 22:13 ` Lukasz Majewski
2017-02-02 1:54 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-02-02 9:17 ` Lukasz Majewski
2017-02-02 13:11 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-02-02 15:22 ` Lukasz Majewski
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