linux-kernel - Re: [Enable Designware XGMAC VLAN Stripping Feature 2/2] net: stmmac: dwxgmac2: Add support for HW-accelerated VLAN Stripping

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Message-ID: <68485bf5-0550-4954-cbaa-7f6a5443e4aa@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 21 Jul 2023 18:22:50 +0200
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [Enable Designware XGMAC VLAN Stripping Feature 2/2] net: stmmac:
 dwxgmac2: Add support for HW-accelerated VLAN Stripping

On 21/07/2023 17:59, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>>> +	/* Rx VLAN HW Stripping */
>>>> +	if (of_property_read_bool(np, "snps,rx-vlan-offload")) {
>>>> +		dev_info(&pdev->dev, "RX VLAN HW Stripping\n");
>>>
>>> Why? Drop.
>>>
>>
>> This is an dts option export to dts for user to choose whether or not they
>> Want a Hardware stripping or a software stripping.
>>
>> May I know what is the reason to drop this?
> 
> Because the networking stack already exposes knobs for drivers to 
> advertise and control VLAN stripping/insertion on RX/TX using ethtool 
> and feature bits (NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX, NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX).
> 
> What you are doing here is encode a policy as a Device Tree property 
> rather than describe whether the hardware supports a given feature and 
> this is frowned upon.

That's even better reason...

Best regards,
Krzysztof