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<title>linux.git/net/dsa/Kconfig, branch v5.7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>net: dsa: add support for Atheros AR9331 TAG format</title>
<updated>2019-12-21T01:05:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleksij Rempel</name>
<email>o.rempel@pengutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-18T08:02:14+00:00</published>
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Add support for tag format used in Atheros AR9331 built-in switch.

Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot &lt;vivien.didelot@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel &lt;o.rempel@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add support for tag format used in Atheros AR9331 built-in switch.

Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot &lt;vivien.didelot@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel &lt;o.rempel@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: ocelot: add tagger for Ocelot/Felix switches</title>
<updated>2019-11-15T20:32:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-14T15:03:29+00:00</published>
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While it is entirely possible that this tagger format is in fact more
generic than just these 2 switch families, I don't have that knowledge.
The Seville switch in NXP T1040 has a similar frame format, but there
are enough differences (e.g. DEST field starts at bit 57 instead of 56)
that calling this file tag_vitesse.c is a bit of a stretch at the
moment. The frame format has been listed in a comment so that people who
add support for further Vitesse switches can rework this tagger while
keeping compatibility with Felix.

The "ocelot" name was chosen instead of "felix" because even the Ocelot
switch can act as a DSA device when it is used in NPI mode, and the Felix
tagger format is almost identical. Currently it is only used for the
Felix switch embedded in the NXP LS1028A chip.

The ABI for this tagger should be considered "not stable" at the moment.
The DSA tag is always placed before the Ethernet header and therefore,
we are using the long prefix for RX tags to avoid putting the DSA master
port in promiscuous mode. Once there will be an API in DSA for drivers
to request DSA masters to be in promiscuous mode unconditionally, we
will switch to the "no prefix" extraction frame header, which will save
16 padding bytes for each RX frame.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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While it is entirely possible that this tagger format is in fact more
generic than just these 2 switch families, I don't have that knowledge.
The Seville switch in NXP T1040 has a similar frame format, but there
are enough differences (e.g. DEST field starts at bit 57 instead of 56)
that calling this file tag_vitesse.c is a bit of a stretch at the
moment. The frame format has been listed in a comment so that people who
add support for further Vitesse switches can rework this tagger while
keeping compatibility with Felix.

The "ocelot" name was chosen instead of "felix" because even the Ocelot
switch can act as a DSA device when it is used in NPI mode, and the Felix
tagger format is almost identical. Currently it is only used for the
Felix switch embedded in the NXP LS1028A chip.

The ABI for this tagger should be considered "not stable" at the moment.
The DSA tag is always placed before the Ethernet header and therefore,
we are using the long prefix for RX tags to avoid putting the DSA master
port in promiscuous mode. Once there will be an API in DSA for drivers
to request DSA masters to be in promiscuous mode unconditionally, we
will switch to the "no prefix" extraction frame header, which will save
16 padding bytes for each RX frame.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: Prevent usage of NET_DSA_TAG_8021Q as tagging protocol</title>
<updated>2019-11-13T03:46:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Fainelli</name>
<email>f.fainelli@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-12T04:38:46+00:00</published>
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It is possible for a switch driver to use NET_DSA_TAG_8021Q as a valid
DSA tagging protocol since it registers itself as such, unfortunately
since there are not xmit or rcv functions provided, the lack of a xmit()
function will lead to a NPD in dsa_slave_xmit() to start with.

net/dsa/tag_8021q.c is only comprised of a set of helper functions at
the moment, but is not a fully autonomous or functional tagging "driver"
(though it could become later on). We do not have any users of
NET_DSA_TAG_8021Q so now is a good time to make sure there are not
issues being encountered by making this file strictly a place holder for
helper functions.

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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It is possible for a switch driver to use NET_DSA_TAG_8021Q as a valid
DSA tagging protocol since it registers itself as such, unfortunately
since there are not xmit or rcv functions provided, the lack of a xmit()
function will lead to a NPD in dsa_slave_xmit() to start with.

net/dsa/tag_8021q.c is only comprised of a set of helper functions at
the moment, but is not a fully autonomous or functional tagging "driver"
(though it could become later on). We do not have any users of
NET_DSA_TAG_8021Q so now is a good time to make sure there are not
issues being encountered by making this file strictly a place holder for
helper functions.

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: microchip: remove NET_DSA_TAG_KSZ_COMMON</title>
<updated>2019-09-12T10:36:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>George McCollister</name>
<email>george.mccollister@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-10T13:18:36+00:00</published>
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Remove the superfluous NET_DSA_TAG_KSZ_COMMON and just use the existing
NET_DSA_TAG_KSZ. Update the description to mention the three switch
families it supports. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: George McCollister &lt;george.mccollister@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut &lt;marex@denx.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Remove the superfluous NET_DSA_TAG_KSZ_COMMON and just use the existing
NET_DSA_TAG_KSZ. Update the description to mention the three switch
families it supports. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: George McCollister &lt;george.mccollister@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut &lt;marex@denx.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: ksz: Drop NET_DSA_TAG_KSZ9477</title>
<updated>2019-08-06T18:59:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marek Vasut</name>
<email>marex@denx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-06T13:06:09+00:00</published>
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This Kconfig option is unused, drop it.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut &lt;marex@denx.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tristram Ha &lt;Tristram.Ha@microchip.com&gt;
Cc: Vivien Didelot &lt;vivien.didelot@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Woojung Huh &lt;woojung.huh@microchip.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This Kconfig option is unused, drop it.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut &lt;marex@denx.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tristram Ha &lt;Tristram.Ha@microchip.com&gt;
Cc: Vivien Didelot &lt;vivien.didelot@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Woojung Huh &lt;woojung.huh@microchip.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: tag_sja1105: Select CONFIG_PACKING</title>
<updated>2019-06-14T05:42:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>olteanv@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-11T18:47:45+00:00</published>
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The packing facility is needed to decode Ethernet meta frames containing
source port and RX timestamping information.

The DSA driver selects CONFIG_PACKING, but the tagger did not, and since
taggers can be now compiled as modules independently from the drivers
themselves, this is an issue now, as CONFIG_PACKING is disabled by
default on all architectures.

Fixes: e53e18a6fe4d ("net: dsa: sja1105: Receive and decode meta frames")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt; # build-tested
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The packing facility is needed to decode Ethernet meta frames containing
source port and RX timestamping information.

The DSA driver selects CONFIG_PACKING, but the tagger did not, and since
taggers can be now compiled as modules independently from the drivers
themselves, this is an issue now, as CONFIG_PACKING is disabled by
default on all architectures.

Fixes: e53e18a6fe4d ("net: dsa: sja1105: Receive and decode meta frames")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt; # build-tested
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T08:50:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-19T12:07:45+00:00</published>
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: sja1105: Add support for traffic through standalone ports</title>
<updated>2019-05-06T04:52:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>olteanv@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-05T10:19:27+00:00</published>
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In order to support this, we are creating a make-shift switch tag out of
a VLAN trunk configured on the CPU port. Termination of normal traffic
on switch ports only works when not under a vlan_filtering bridge.
Termination of management (PTP, BPDU) traffic works under all
circumstances because it uses a different tagging mechanism
(incl_srcpt). We are making use of the generic CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_8021Q
code and leveraging it from our own CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_SJA1105.

There are two types of traffic: regular and link-local.

The link-local traffic received on the CPU port is trapped from the
switch's regular forwarding decisions because it matched one of the two
DMAC filters for management traffic.

On transmission, the switch requires special massaging for these
link-local frames. Due to a weird implementation of the switching IP, by
default it drops link-local frames that originate on the CPU port.
It needs to be told where to forward them to, through an SPI command
("management route") that is valid for only a single frame.
So when we're sending link-local traffic, we are using the
dsa_defer_xmit mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In order to support this, we are creating a make-shift switch tag out of
a VLAN trunk configured on the CPU port. Termination of normal traffic
on switch ports only works when not under a vlan_filtering bridge.
Termination of management (PTP, BPDU) traffic works under all
circumstances because it uses a different tagging mechanism
(incl_srcpt). We are making use of the generic CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_8021Q
code and leveraging it from our own CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_SJA1105.

There are two types of traffic: regular and link-local.

The link-local traffic received on the CPU port is trapped from the
switch's regular forwarding decisions because it matched one of the two
DMAC filters for management traffic.

On transmission, the switch requires special massaging for these
link-local frames. Due to a weird implementation of the switching IP, by
default it drops link-local frames that originate on the CPU port.
It needs to be told where to forward them to, through an SPI command
("management route") that is valid for only a single frame.
So when we're sending link-local traffic, we are using the
dsa_defer_xmit mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: Optional VLAN-based port separation for switches without tagging</title>
<updated>2019-05-06T04:52:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>olteanv@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-05T10:19:22+00:00</published>
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This patch provides generic DSA code for using VLAN (802.1Q) tags for
the same purpose as a dedicated switch tag for injection/extraction.
It is based on the discussions and interest that has been so far
expressed in https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg556125.html.

Unlike all other DSA-supported tagging protocols, CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_8021Q
does not offer a complete solution for drivers (nor can it). Instead, it
provides generic code that driver can opt into calling:
- dsa_8021q_xmit: Inserts a VLAN header with the specified contents.
  Can be called from another tagging protocol's xmit function.
  Currently the LAN9303 driver is inserting headers that are simply
  802.1Q with custom fields, so this is an opportunity for code reuse.
- dsa_8021q_rcv: Retrieves the TPID and TCI from a VLAN-tagged skb.
  Removing the VLAN header is left as a decision for the caller to make.
- dsa_port_setup_8021q_tagging: For each user port, installs an Rx VID
  and a Tx VID, for proper untagged traffic identification on ingress
  and steering on egress. Also sets up the VLAN trunk on the upstream
  (CPU or DSA) port. Drivers are intentionally left to call this
  function explicitly, depending on the context and hardware support.
  The expected switch behavior and VLAN semantics should not be violated
  under any conditions. That is, after calling
  dsa_port_setup_8021q_tagging, the hardware should still pass all
  ingress traffic, be it tagged or untagged.

For uniformity with the other tagging protocols, a module for the
dsa_8021q_netdev_ops structure is registered, but the typical usage is
to set up another tagging protocol which selects CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_8021Q,
and calls the API from tag_8021q.h. Null function definitions are also
provided so that a "depends on" is not forced in the Kconfig.

This tagging protocol only works when switch ports are standalone, or
when they are added to a VLAN-unaware bridge. It will probably remain
this way for the reasons below.

When added to a bridge that has vlan_filtering 1, the bridge core will
install its own VLANs and reset the pvids through switchdev. For the
bridge core, switchdev is a write-only pipe. All VLAN-related state is
kept in the bridge core and nothing is read from DSA/switchdev or from
the driver. So the bridge core will break this port separation because
it will install the vlan_default_pvid into all switchdev ports.

Even if we could teach the bridge driver about switchdev preference of a
certain vlan_default_pvid (task difficult in itself since the current
setting is per-bridge but we would need it per-port), there would still
exist many other challenges.

Firstly, in the DSA rcv callback, a driver would have to perform an
iterative reverse lookup to find the correct switch port. That is
because the port is a bridge slave, so its Rx VID (port PVID) is subject
to user configuration. How would we ensure that the user doesn't reset
the pvid to a different value (which would make an O(1) translation
impossible), or to a non-unique value within this DSA switch tree (which
would make any translation impossible)?

Finally, not all switch ports are equal in DSA, and that makes it
difficult for the bridge to be completely aware of this anyway.
The CPU port needs to transmit tagged packets (VLAN trunk) in order for
the DSA rcv code to be able to decode source information.
But the bridge code has absolutely no idea which switch port is the CPU
port, if nothing else then just because there is no netdevice registered
by DSA for the CPU port.
Also DSA does not currently allow the user to specify that they want the
CPU port to do VLAN trunking anyway. VLANs are added to the CPU port
using the same flags as they were added on the user port.

So the VLANs installed by dsa_port_setup_8021q_tagging per driver
request should remain private from the bridge's and user's perspective,
and should not alter the VLAN semantics observed by the user.

In the current implementation a VLAN range ending at 4095 (VLAN_N_VID)
is reserved for this purpose. Each port receives a unique Rx VLAN and a
unique Tx VLAN. Separate VLANs are needed for Rx and Tx because they
serve different purposes: on Rx the switch must process traffic as
untagged and process it with a port-based VLAN, but with care not to
hinder bridging. On the other hand, the Tx VLAN is where the
reachability restrictions are imposed, since by tagging frames in the
xmit callback we are telling the switch onto which port to steer the
frame.

Some general guidance on how this support might be employed for
real-life hardware (some comments made by Florian Fainelli):

- If the hardware supports VLAN tag stacking, it should somehow back
  up its private VLAN settings when the bridge tries to override them.
  Then the driver could re-apply them as outer tags. Dedicating an outer
  tag per bridge device would allow identical inner tag VID numbers to
  co-exist, yet preserve broadcast domain isolation.

- If the switch cannot handle VLAN tag stacking, it should disable this
  port separation when added as slave to a vlan_filtering bridge, in
  that case having reduced functionality.

- Drivers for old switches that don't support the entire VLAN_N_VID
  range will need to rework the current range selection mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot &lt;vivien.didelot@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch provides generic DSA code for using VLAN (802.1Q) tags for
the same purpose as a dedicated switch tag for injection/extraction.
It is based on the discussions and interest that has been so far
expressed in https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg556125.html.

Unlike all other DSA-supported tagging protocols, CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_8021Q
does not offer a complete solution for drivers (nor can it). Instead, it
provides generic code that driver can opt into calling:
- dsa_8021q_xmit: Inserts a VLAN header with the specified contents.
  Can be called from another tagging protocol's xmit function.
  Currently the LAN9303 driver is inserting headers that are simply
  802.1Q with custom fields, so this is an opportunity for code reuse.
- dsa_8021q_rcv: Retrieves the TPID and TCI from a VLAN-tagged skb.
  Removing the VLAN header is left as a decision for the caller to make.
- dsa_port_setup_8021q_tagging: For each user port, installs an Rx VID
  and a Tx VID, for proper untagged traffic identification on ingress
  and steering on egress. Also sets up the VLAN trunk on the upstream
  (CPU or DSA) port. Drivers are intentionally left to call this
  function explicitly, depending on the context and hardware support.
  The expected switch behavior and VLAN semantics should not be violated
  under any conditions. That is, after calling
  dsa_port_setup_8021q_tagging, the hardware should still pass all
  ingress traffic, be it tagged or untagged.

For uniformity with the other tagging protocols, a module for the
dsa_8021q_netdev_ops structure is registered, but the typical usage is
to set up another tagging protocol which selects CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_8021Q,
and calls the API from tag_8021q.h. Null function definitions are also
provided so that a "depends on" is not forced in the Kconfig.

This tagging protocol only works when switch ports are standalone, or
when they are added to a VLAN-unaware bridge. It will probably remain
this way for the reasons below.

When added to a bridge that has vlan_filtering 1, the bridge core will
install its own VLANs and reset the pvids through switchdev. For the
bridge core, switchdev is a write-only pipe. All VLAN-related state is
kept in the bridge core and nothing is read from DSA/switchdev or from
the driver. So the bridge core will break this port separation because
it will install the vlan_default_pvid into all switchdev ports.

Even if we could teach the bridge driver about switchdev preference of a
certain vlan_default_pvid (task difficult in itself since the current
setting is per-bridge but we would need it per-port), there would still
exist many other challenges.

Firstly, in the DSA rcv callback, a driver would have to perform an
iterative reverse lookup to find the correct switch port. That is
because the port is a bridge slave, so its Rx VID (port PVID) is subject
to user configuration. How would we ensure that the user doesn't reset
the pvid to a different value (which would make an O(1) translation
impossible), or to a non-unique value within this DSA switch tree (which
would make any translation impossible)?

Finally, not all switch ports are equal in DSA, and that makes it
difficult for the bridge to be completely aware of this anyway.
The CPU port needs to transmit tagged packets (VLAN trunk) in order for
the DSA rcv code to be able to decode source information.
But the bridge code has absolutely no idea which switch port is the CPU
port, if nothing else then just because there is no netdevice registered
by DSA for the CPU port.
Also DSA does not currently allow the user to specify that they want the
CPU port to do VLAN trunking anyway. VLANs are added to the CPU port
using the same flags as they were added on the user port.

So the VLANs installed by dsa_port_setup_8021q_tagging per driver
request should remain private from the bridge's and user's perspective,
and should not alter the VLAN semantics observed by the user.

In the current implementation a VLAN range ending at 4095 (VLAN_N_VID)
is reserved for this purpose. Each port receives a unique Rx VLAN and a
unique Tx VLAN. Separate VLANs are needed for Rx and Tx because they
serve different purposes: on Rx the switch must process traffic as
untagged and process it with a port-based VLAN, but with care not to
hinder bridging. On the other hand, the Tx VLAN is where the
reachability restrictions are imposed, since by tagging frames in the
xmit callback we are telling the switch onto which port to steer the
frame.

Some general guidance on how this support might be employed for
real-life hardware (some comments made by Florian Fainelli):

- If the hardware supports VLAN tag stacking, it should somehow back
  up its private VLAN settings when the bridge tries to override them.
  Then the driver could re-apply them as outer tags. Dedicating an outer
  tag per bridge device would allow identical inner tag VID numbers to
  co-exist, yet preserve broadcast domain isolation.

- If the switch cannot handle VLAN tag stacking, it should disable this
  port separation when added as slave to a vlan_filtering bridge, in
  that case having reduced functionality.

- Drivers for old switches that don't support the entire VLAN_N_VID
  range will need to rework the current range selection mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot &lt;vivien.didelot@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: dsa: Remove legacy probing support</title>
<updated>2019-05-01T03:15:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Lunn</name>
<email>andrew@lunn.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-28T00:56:23+00:00</published>
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Now that all drivers can be probed using more traditional methods,
remove the legacy probe code.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Now that all drivers can be probed using more traditional methods,
remove the legacy probe code.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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