linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] staging: dpaa2-ethsw: add support for control interface traffic

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Message-ID: <20191105132435.GA2616182@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 5 Nov 2019 14:24:35 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] staging: dpaa2-ethsw: add support for control
 interface traffic

On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 02:34:23PM +0200, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> This patch set adds support for Rx/Tx capabilities on switch port interfaces.
> Also, control traffic is redirected through ACLs to the CPU in order to
> enable proper STP protocol handling.
> 
> The control interface is comprised of 3 queues in total: Rx, Rx error and
> Tx confirmation.  In this patch set we only enable Rx and Tx conf. All
> switch ports share the same queues when frames are redirected to the CPU.
> Information regarding the ingress switch port is passed through frame
> metadata - the flow context field of the descriptor. NAPI instances are
> also shared between switch net_devices and are enabled when at least on
> one of the switch ports .dev_open() was called and disabled when at least
> one switch port is still up.
> 
> The new feature is enabled only on MC versions greater than 10.19.0
> (which is soon to be released).

I thought I asked for no new features until this code gets out of
staging?  Only then can you add new stuff.  Please work to make that
happen first.

thanks,

greg k-h