netdev - Re: [patch net-next RFC 0/4] introduce infrastructure for support of switch chip datapath

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Message-ID: <53349C6C.6050506@mojatatu.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:47:24 -0400
From:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@...il.com>
CC:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
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	Shrijeet Mukherjee <shm@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 0/4] introduce infrastructure for support
 of switch chip datapath

On 03/27/14 16:01, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 2014-03-27 12:58 GMT-07:00 Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@...il.com>:
>> 2014-03-27 20:55 GMT+04:00 Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>:

>> Moreover, we need to know ports of switch chip, what are really wired
>> to the connectors (e.g. five-port switch on the board with only three
>> connectors).
>
> Well, DSA already does all of that for you and has Device Tree
> bindings too to instantiate per-port net_device, create the switch
> routing table in case switches are cascaded...
>

Just to be clear:
routing here implies how the devices are interconnected (as opposed
to L3 packet processing).
Is that generic enough to be usable for different vendors or only
specific to marvel?

cheers,
jamal
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