Re: DSA and netfilter interaction.

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Hi,

On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 11:11:22PM +0200, Jim Morrison wrote:
> In net/dsa/user.c in the function dsa_user_setup_tc() when TC_SETUP_FT
> command arrives, dsa_user_setup_ft_block() will be called which calls
> ndo_setup_tc() for the conduit device.
> 
> What is the rationale behind this design? Why isn't the corresponding
> dsa_switch_ops::port_setup_tc() called?
> 
> More specifically, what is the conduit driver expected to do when it
> receives the TC_SETUP_FT from the DSA subsystem?
> 
> It seems to me that the conduit's driver can't do much as it doesn't
> even know for which switch port this ndo_setup_tc() was called.

Did you have a look at the existing client code that is using this
infrastructure from Netfilter?




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