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Message-Id: <20140827.162458.878869941352643208.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:24:58 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: alexander.h.duyck@...el.com Cc: f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linville@...driver.com, jhs@...atatu.com, alexander.duyck@...il.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 01/13] net: dsa: reduce number of protocol hooks From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:25:45 -0700 > Just a thought, you might want to consider using a protocol value other > than ETH_P_DSA. Maybe we should add a new value named ETH_P_XDSA for > this approach since what we are doing is a multiplexed DSA protocol now. > > This would allow for much easier back-porting of this if needed and also > prevents us from possibly triggering any issues if there are any > user-space APIs that might be trying to capture packets based on the > protocol value. Agreed, Florian can you respin this patch set using a newly allocated ETH_P_* value for these new semantics? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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