netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: dsa: change tag

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Message-Id: <20140913.170447.801906348037109799.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 13 Sep 2014 17:04:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...tstofly.org,
	alexander.duyck@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: dsa: change tag_protocol to an enum

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:18:09 -0700

> Now that we introduced an additional multiplexing/demultiplexing layer
> with commit 3e8a72d1dae37 ("net: dsa: reduce number of protocol hooks")
> that lives within the DSA code, we no longer need to have a given switch
> driver tag_protocol be an actual ethertype value, instead, we can
> replace it with an enum: dsa_tag_protocol.
> 
> Do this replacement in the drivers, which allows us to get rid of the
> cpu_to_be16()/htons() dance, and remove ETH_P_BRCMTAG since we do not
> need it anymore.
> 
> Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - removed now obsolete comment about the former ETH_P_BRCMTAG we did
>   introduce earlier

Applied, thank you.
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