linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] net: dsa: microchip: DSA driver support for LAN937x switch

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Date:   Sat, 30 Jan 2021 04:09:02 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Prasanna Vengateshan <prasanna.vengateshan@...rochip.com>,
        andrew@...n.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        kuba@...nel.org, vivien.didelot@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com, Woojung.Huh@...rochip.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] net: dsa: microchip: DSA driver support for
 LAN937x switch

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 09:55:58AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Could you also feed back to your hardware organization to settle on a
> tag format that is not a snowflake? Almost *every* switch you have has a
> different tagging format, this is absurd. All other vendors in tree have
> been able to settle on at most 2 or 3 different tagging formats over
> their switching product life span (for some vendors this dates back 20
> years ago).

You can't stop them from innovating, Florian :(