Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 0/4] introduce infrastructure for support of switch chip datapath

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:47:24 -0400

On 03/27/14 16:01, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 2014-03-27 12:58 GMT-07:00 Sergey Ryazanov <[email-masked]>:
>> 2014-03-27 20:55 GMT+04:00 Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]>:

>> Moreover, we need to know ports of switch chip, what are really wired
>> to the connectors (e.g. five-port switch on the board with only three
>> connectors).
>
> Well, DSA already does all of that for you and has Device Tree
> bindings too to instantiate per-port net_device, create the switch
> routing table in case switches are cascaded...
>

Just to be clear:
routing here implies how the devices are interconnected (as opposed
to L3 packet processing).
Is that generic enough to be usable for different vendors or only
specific to marvel?

cheers,
jamal