linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/14] net: vlan: remove invalid VLAN protocol warning

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Date:   Tue, 8 Nov 2022 11:56:52 +0100
From:   Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/14] net: vlan: remove invalid VLAN protocol warning

On 08.11.22 11:52, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 11:42:09AM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> Okay, I will stick with METADATA_HW_PORT_MUX for now. If we use it in the
>> flow dissector to avoid the tagger specific fixup, we might as well use it
>> in DSA to skip the tag proto receive call. What do you think?
> 
> I suppose that dsa_switch_rcv() could test for the presence of a metadata_dst
> and treat that generically if present, without unnecessarily calling down into
> the tagging protocol ->rcv() call. The assumption being that the metadata_dst
> is always formatted (by the DSA master) in a vendor-agnostic way.
Right. The assumption is that if we use METADATA_HW_PORT_MUX, the field 
md_dst->u.port_info.port_id will contain the index of the DSA port.

- Felix