netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: tag_sja1105: Select CONFIG

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Message-Id: <20190613.224413.938595981926047101.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 13 Jun 2019 22:44:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     olteanv@...il.com
Cc:     f.fainelli@...il.com, vivien.didelot@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        rdunlap@...radead.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: tag_sja1105: Select CONFIG_PACKING

From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 21:47:45 +0300

> The packing facility is needed to decode Ethernet meta frames containing
> source port and RX timestamping information.
> 
> The DSA driver selects CONFIG_PACKING, but the tagger did not, and since
> taggers can be now compiled as modules independently from the drivers
> themselves, this is an issue now, as CONFIG_PACKING is disabled by
> default on all architectures.
> 
> Fixes: e53e18a6fe4d ("net: dsa: sja1105: Receive and decode meta frames")
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

Applied.