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

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Date:   Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:43:36 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>
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 Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 02:11:06PM +0200, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote:
> When VLAN awareness is disabled, the packet is still classified with the
> pvid. But, later all rules regarding VLANs (except for the PCP field)
> are ignored then. So, the programmed pvid doesn't matter in this case.

Ok, clear now.

> The only way to implement the non-filtering bridge behavior is this
> flag. However, this has some more implications. For instance when
> there's a non filtering bridge, then standalone mode doesn't work
> anymore due to the VLAN unawareness. This is not a problem at the
> moment, because there are only two ports. But, later when there are more
> ports, then having two ports in a non-filtering bridge and one in
> standalone mode doesn't work. That's another limitation that needs to be
> considered when adding more ports later on.

Well, then you have feedback to bring to the hardware engineers when
switches with more than 2 user ports will be instantiated.

> Besides that problem everything else seem to work now in accordance to
> the expected Linux behavior with roper restrictions in place.

Ok, that's great.