Re: [RFC net-next 0/3] net: bridge: Allow CPU port configuration

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Hi Florian,

Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This patch series allows using the bridge master interface to configure
> an Ethernet switch port's CPU/management port with different VLAN attributes than
> those of the bridge downstream ports/members.
>
> Jiri, Ido, Andrew, Vivien, please review the impact on mlxsw and mv88e6xxx, I
> tested this with b53 and a mockup DSA driver.

Patchset looks fine to me overall. I'm cooking a patch similar to 3/3
for mv88e6xxx to put on top of this patchset.

Minor comments in individual patchs will follow.

> Open questions:
>
> - if we have more than one bridge on top of a physical switch, the driver
>   should keep track of that and verify that we are not going to change
>   the CPU port VLAN attributes in a way that results in incompatible settings
>   to be applied

In mv88e6xxx, mv88e6xxx_port_check_hw_vlan() does that. It needs a small
adjustment though.

> - if the default behavior is to have all VLANs associated with the CPU port
>   be ingressing/egressing tagged to the CPU, is this really useful?

I have no strong opinion on this. Intuitively I'd expect the CPU port to
be excluded until I add it myself, but I didn't think much about it.

Thanks,

        Vivien



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