netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 0/8] configuration support for switch headers & phy

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Sun, 21 Mar 2021 15:15:26 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Hariprasad Kelam <hkelam@...vell.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kuba@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net, sgoutham@...vell.com,
        lcherian@...vell.com, gakula@...vell.com, jerinj@...vell.com,
        sbhatta@...vell.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 0/8] configuration support for switch headers &
 phy

On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 05:39:50PM +0530, Hariprasad Kelam wrote:
> This series of patches add support for parsing switch headers and
> configuration support for phy modulation type(NRZ or PAM4).
> 
> PHYs that support changing modulation type ,user can configure it
> through private flags pam4.
> 
> Marvell switches support DSA(distributed switch architecture) with
> different switch headers like FDSA and EDSA. This patch series adds
> private flags to enable user to configure interface in fdsa/edsa
> mode such that flow steering (forwading packets to pf/vf depending on
> switch header fields) and packet parsing can be acheived.

Hi Hariprasad 

Private flags sound very wrong here. I would expect to see some
integration between the switchdev/DSA driver and the MAC driver.
Please show how this works in combination with
drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx or drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera.

	  Andrew