netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: dsa: use per-port upstream port

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Message-ID: <87374pdk2p.fsf@weeman.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
Date:   Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:57:18 -0500
From:   Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...oirfairelinux.com, f.fainelli@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: dsa: use per-port upstream port

Hi David,

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:

> From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
> Date: Mon,  4 Dec 2017 12:34:52 -0500
>
>> An upstream port is a local switch port used to reach a CPU port.
>> 
>> DSA still considers a unique CPU port in the whole switch fabric and
>> thus return a unique upstream port for a given switch. This is wrong in
>> a multiple CPU ports environment.
>> 
>> We are now switching to using the dedicated CPU port assigned to each
>> port in order to get rid of the deprecated unique tree CPU port.
>> 
>> This patchset makes the dsa_upstream_port() helper take a port argument
>> and goes one step closer complete support for multiple CPU ports.
>
> Please adhere to reverse-christmas-tree for variable declarations in
> these changes.

Totally makes sense for this month of the year, I'm replanting a v2!


Thanks,

        Vivien