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Message-ID: <20230703133355.479c6651@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 3 Jul 2023 13:33:55 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] Fix mangled link-local MAC DAs with SJA1105 DSA

On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 17:14:51 +0300 Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> The SJA1105 hardware tagging protocol is weird and will put DSA
> information (source port, switch ID) in the MAC DA of the packets sent
> to the CPU, and then send some additional (meta) packets which contain
> the original bytes from the previous packet's MAC DA.
> 
> The tagging protocol driver contains logic to handle this, but the meta
> frames are optional functionality, and there are configurations when
> they aren't received (no PTP RX timestamping). Thus, the MAC DA from
> packets sent to the stack is not correct in all cases.
> 
> Also, during testing it was found that the MAC DA patching procedure was
> incorrect.
> 
> The investigation comes as a result of this discussion with Paolo:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/f494387c8d55d9b1d5a3e88beedeeb448f2e6cc3.camel@redhat.com/

This series got eaten by vger, I think. Could you repost?

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