Re: [RFC net-next 6/9] net: dsa: Forward offloading

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> There is really no need to recompute the static parts of the tags on
> each skb. It would mean moving some knowledge of the tagging format to
> the driver. But that boundary is pretty artificial for
> mv88e6xxx. tag_dsa has no use outside of mv88e6xxx, and mv88e6xxx does
> not work with any other tagger. I suppose you could even move the whole
> tagger to drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/?
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Andrew?

We have resisted this before.

What information do you actually need to share between the tagger and
the driver? Both tag_lan9303.c and tag_ocelot_8021q.c do reference
their switch driver data structures, so some sharing is allowed. But
please try to keep the surface areas down.

       Andrew



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