netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v6 2/7] net: dsa: Add DSA driver for Hirschmann Hellcreek switches

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Message-ID: <87lfgj788j.fsf@kurt>
Date:   Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:13:32 +0200
From:   Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        Kamil Alkhouri <kamil.alkhouri@...offenburg.de>,
        ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 2/7] net: dsa: Add DSA driver for Hirschmann Hellcreek switches

On Tue Oct 06 2020, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 03:23:36PM +0200, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote:
>> So you're saying private VLANs can be used but the user or the other
>> kernel modules shouldn't be allowed to use them to simplify the
>> implementation?  Makes sense to me.
>
> It would be interesting to see if you could simply turn off VLAN
> awareness in standalone mode, and still use unique pvids per port.
> Then you would have no further restriction for VLAN-tagged traffic with
> unknown VLANs or with 8021q uppers having the same VLAN ID on multiple
> ports.

True. That needs to be tested.


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