Thank you Deng and Rosen for your work, and also for the links!

I’ll try to maintain a revert patch in my fork, until we have the ability to 
map interfaces to ports and configure mirroring in the LuCI GUI.
You have made a good progress in that direction.


> On 2020-11-18, at 6:05 AM, Rosen Penev <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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?
> The Turris people have a patch for this. I ported it to master here:
> https://github.com/neheb/openwrt/commit/b8c124c08b12cebf71cf80078ab688feff4ae796
> 
> I have not tested it.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> --
>> Georgi Valkov
>> github.com/httpstorm/
>> httpstorm.com
>> 
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