netdev - Re: 802.1Q support?

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Message-Id: <200901131154.07729.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:54:07 -0500
From:	Robin Getz <rgetz@...ckfin.uclinux.org>
To:	"Florian Fainelli" <florian@...nwrt.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 802.1Q support?

On Tue 13 Jan 2009 08:29, Florian Fainelli pondered:
> Le Tuesday 13 January 2009 13:31:20 Robin Getz, vous avez écrit :
> > Great - That looks like the way to go -- is there any plan in sending this
> > to mainline?
> 
> Yes we will definitively submit it for mainline inclusion, Felix, who wrote 
> the swconfig stuff will probably want to clean it up a bit and/or add 
> features.
> 
> Lennert Buytenhek also proposed a Distributed Switch Architecture which is 
> worth looking at, though it does not cover more "classical" switches 
> connection over GPIO, SPI or special PHY address.

Hmmm ... 
https://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2008/9/25/3411164/thread

> The switch driver presents each port on the switch as a separate
> network interface to Linux, polls the switch to maintain software
> link state of those ports, forwards MII management interface
> accesses to those network interfaces (e.g. as done by ethtool) to
> the switch, and exposes the switch's hardware statistics counters
> via the appropriate Linux kernel interfaces.

This exposes eth[n] for every port - and these are managed by the standard 
userspace tools? 

That seems like it would be more intuitive for end users -- wouldn't it?
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