Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] net: dsa: link aggregation support

Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-27T19:05:21Z

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 07:33:37PM +0100, Marek Behun wrote:
> > In order for this to work on transmit, we need to add forward offloading
> > to the bridge so that we can, for example, send one FORWARD from the CPU
> > to send an ARP broadcast to swp1..4 instead of four FROM_CPUs.
>
> Wouldn't this be solved if the CPU master interface was a bonding interface?

I don't see how you would do that. Would DSA keep returning -EPROBE_DEFER
until user space decides to set up a bond over the master interfaces?
How would you even describe that in device tree?