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Message-ID: <YGxiZIDgXQjaYziE@lunn.ch>
Date:   Tue, 6 Apr 2021 15:30:12 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@...dekranz.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, vivien.didelot@...il.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, olteanv@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        robh+dt@...nel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Allow dynamic
 reconfiguration of tag protocol

> Since DSA is supported on all devices, perhaps we should just have:
> 
> enum mv88e6xxx_edsa_support {
>      MV88E6XXX_EDSA_UNSUPPORTED,
>      MV88E6XXX_EDSA_UNDOCUMENTED,
>      MV88E6XXX_EDSA_SUPPORTED,
> };

Yes, that is O.K.
 
> Do we also want to default to DSA on all devices unless there is a
> DT-property saying something else? Using EDSA does not really give you
> anything over bare tags anymore. You have fixed the tcpdump-issue, and
> the tagger drivers have been unified so there should be no risk of any
> regressions there either.

The regressions with be exactly what you are trying to fix here. A MAC
which does not understand the DSA tag and does the wrong thing, where
as currently it is using EDSA and working.

So i would keep things as they are by default.

   Andrew

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