From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: f.fainelli@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, andrew@lunn.ch,
vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: Expose tagging protocol to user-space
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 14:51:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180907.145114.1707343345072477953.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180907180908.3223-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com>
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 11:09:02 -0700
> There is no way for user-space to know what a given DSA network device's
> tagging protocol is. Expose this information through a dsa/tagging
> attribute which reflects the tagging protocol currently in use.
>
> This is helpful for configuration (e.g: none behaves dramatically
> different wrt. bridges) as well as for packet capture tools when there
> is not a proper Ethernet type available.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Applied, thanks Florian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-07 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-07 18:09 [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: Expose tagging protocol to user-space Florian Fainelli
2018-09-07 21:51 ` David Miller [this message]
2018-09-08 9:43 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-09-10 3:04 ` Andrew Lunn
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