On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 15:53, Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> wrote: > > > I do see that neither vitesse-vsc73xx nor rtl8366 do implement the bridge > > membership callbacks, and as I don't happen to know nearly enough about > > DSA, I > > wonder at what moment in time does forwarding get activated between ports. > > If those callbacks are not implement, it means the software bridge > does the forwarding. The hardware is not used. > > The DSA model allows you to start simple and just implement something > like a port multiplexor. All frames get passed to the host, and the > host then decides what to do with them. > > You can then add more callbacks and make more use of the hardware, > e.g. get the hardware to bridge between ports. > > If the hardware is not capable of supporting vlan filtering, but you > can support simpler modes, you should implement what you can, and > return an error when asked to do something which it cannot support. > > Andrew
Hi Andrew, Thank you for the explanation, it does make sense. Would you mind sharing a thought about the feasability of DSA_TAG_PROTO_8021Q in light of the required handling that was discussed in the previous emails? Regards, -Vladimir
