netdev - Re: Question on switchdev

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Message-ID: <56E18CA9.5020300@ti.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:03:05 -0500
From:	Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@...com>
To:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
CC:	<jiri@...nulli.us>, <sfeldma@...il.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question on switchdev

On 03/08/2016 07:39 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> Andrew,
>>
>> >From the high level, it looks like netcp switch meets the specifications
>> of a DSA hardware. Can you point me to a specific implementation that
>> I can use as an example to implement this for netcp?
> 
> You need two parts:
> 
> A tagging implementation, in net/dsa/tag_*.c. They are all pretty
> similar, and all pretty simple.
> 
> A switch driver. driver/net/dsa/mv88e6060.c is the simplest. I would
> suggest your first submission implements similar features as to what
> this driver does. This is very minimalistic, but a good start. Once
> that is accepted, you can incrementally add more features.
> 
>      Andrew
> 
Thanks Andrew!

-- 
Murali Karicheri
Linux Kernel, Keystone