netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix MV88E6131 tagging

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Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2016 21:08:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     andrew@...n.ch
Cc:     jm@...tin.co.uk, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix MV88E6131 tagging

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:01:00 +0200

> Marvell has two different tagging protocols for frames passed to a
> swicth. There is the older DSA and the newer EDSA. Somewhere along the
> way, we broke support for switches which only support DSA, by trying
> to configure them to use EDSA. These patches add back support for
> switches which only support DSA, by allowing the drivers to
> dynamically indicate the tagging protocol they support to the DSA
> core. This needs to be dynamic since the mv88e6xxx has to support two
> protocols.
> 
> Thanks go to Jamie Lentin for reporting the problem, helping debug it,
> providing some of the fix, and testing.

Series applied, thanks.

As per tree-wide policy, when a driver unloads the device should be
disabled and in fact if possible configured to not draw power.