netdev - Re: [RFC 0/3] DSA and Marvell 88E6352 802.1q support

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Message-ID: <5568EB55.9090700@roeck-us.net>
Date:	Fri, 29 May 2015 15:42:29 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>,
	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
CC:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Jerome Oufella <jerome.oufella@...oirfairelinux.com>,
	Chris Healy <cphealy@...il.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] DSA and Marvell 88E6352 802.1q support

Scott,

On 05/28/2015 10:02 PM, Scott Feldman wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Vivien Didelot
> <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com> wrote:
>> This RFC is based on v4.1-rc3.
>>
>> It is meant to get a glance to the commits responsible to implement the
>> necessary NDOs between DSA and the Marvell 88E6352 switch driver.
>>
>> With this support, I am able to create VLANs with (un)tagged ports, setting
>> their default VID, from a bridge.
>>
>> To create a bridge containing all switch ports, with a VLAN ID 400, swp2 and
>> swp3 untagged (pvid), and swp4 tagged, the userspace commands look like this:
>>
>>      ip link add name br0 type bridge
>>      [...]
>>      ip link set dev swp2 up master br0
>>      [...]
>>      bridge vlan add vid 400 pvid untagged dev swp2
>>      bridge vlan add vid 400 pvid untagged dev swp3
>>      bridge vlan add vid 400 dev swp4
>>      [...]
>>      ip link add link br0 name br0.400 type vlan id 400
>>      [...]
>>      bridge vlan add dev br0 vid 400 self
>>
>> The code is currently being rebased to the latest net-next/master.
>>
>> Seems like the way to go now is through switchdev attr getter/setter...
>
> Indeed, for dsa_slave you should be able to port this to switchdev and
> set your ndo_bridge_setlink/dellink handlers to
> switchdev_port_bridge_setlink/dellink.  (And also implement the
> switchdev ops for vlans).
>
> If you use switchdev_port_bridge_setlink/dellink, you shouldn't need
> to implement ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid/ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid at all.  The

Those functions are called from net/8021q/vlan_core.c if a vlan is configured
on or removed from an interface. Does that result in a call to setlink/dellink
as well, even if a switch port is not a member of a bridge group ?

Thanks,
Guenter

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