On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 2:15 PM Georgi Valkov <gval...@abv.bg> wrote: > > Dear DENG Qingfang, > > Can you please take a moment to discuss the switch from mvsw61xx swconfig > driver to DSA? > While I like the simplicity of having lan1 lan2 lan3 lan4 wan interfaces for > each port, there are a few important issues that remain to be addressed: > 1. Since the new DSA does not support swconfig, it is no longer possible to > use port mirroring. > 2. WRT3200ACM has two Ethernet interfaces. Isn’t it more efficient to have > dedicated interfaces for LAN and WAN compared to the DSA model which uses > only one of them, and creates multiple interfaces using VLANs? > > Would it be possible to enable the missing functionality in DSA? 1 is very > important to me. If not, then would it be possible to have a menuconfig > setting, so users can choose whether they want DSA or prefer swconfig? In my > fork of OpenWRT I keep a commit that restores the swconfig mode for > WRT3200ACM. Everything works correctly and the interfaces are named lan wan. Quick google search: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20191107211114.106310-1-irtim...@gmail.com/
I assume this will land in kernel 5.11. At a minimum, it needs to be backported. > > -- > Georgi Valkov > github.com/httpstorm/ > httpstorm.com > > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
