netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 2/3] net: dsa: add tag formats for MxL862xx switches

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Message-ID: <531cd8e9-2b15-495d-ae77-927011dfa54d@lunn.ch>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 02:15:25 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
Cc: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
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	John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 2/3] net: dsa: add tag formats for MxL862xx
 switches

> +	/* special tag ingress */
> +	mxl862_tag = dsa_etype_header_pos_tx(skb);
> +	mxl862_tag[0] = htons(ETH_P_MXLGSW);
> +	mxl862_tag[2] = htons(usr_port + 16 - cpu_port);
> +	mxl862_tag[3] = htons(FIELD_PREP(MXL862_IGP_EGP, cpu_port));

You appear to be leaving mxl862_tag[1] uninitialised. Is that
intentional?

This is a pretty odd tag format. The destination port is relative to
the CPU port? You need to include the CPU port in the tag itself? Is
this publicly documented somewhere?

	Andrew