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Message-ID: <a01d88e5-5bb2-dd83-e416-daa6ebe0fb66@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 30 May 2017 12:59:23 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...oirfairelinux.com,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/6] net: dsa: remove unused arguments of
 tagger rcv

On 05/30/2017 12:55 PM, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> writes:
> 
>> I actually have a patch pending that adds support for HW
>> insertion/extraction of switch tags (broadcom HW supports that) which
>> require the orig_dev to be there so we know what features are supported
>> by the master network device.
> 
> Is orig_dev really needed in the tagging implementation, or only in the
> layer above? (dsa_slave_xmit and dsa_switch_rcv.)

It's needed:

https://github.com/ffainelli/linux/commits/switch-tag
https://github.com/ffainelli/linux/commit/61f9ca70dd21bb8c1615f959934cd0ce80a2f3ce

> 
>> Do you mind dropping this one from your patch series?
> 
> I don't mind if they are actually needed in taggers. I'd wait for
> reviews of the other patches before respinning though.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>         Vivien
> 


-- 
Florian

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