netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/5] net: dsa: use per-port upstream port

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Message-Id: <20171205.180257.263794205941951292.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 05 Dec 2017 18:02:57 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com
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 v2 0/5] net: dsa: use per-port upstream port

From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Date: Tue,  5 Dec 2017 15:34:08 -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.
> 
> Changes in v2:
>   - reverse-christmas-tree-fy variables

Series applied, thanks Vivien.