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| author |   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> | 2014-08-27 17:04:46 -0700 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-08-27 22:59:39 -0700 |
| commit | 3e8a72d1dae374cf6fc1dba97cec663585845ff9 (patch) | |
| tree | 83a2ebc590d0dc90d27515dc15bf6323cb2a6c1b /include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h | |
| parent | sungem: Fix global namespace pollution of phy accessors. (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-3e8a72d1dae374cf6fc1dba97cec663585845ff9.tar.xz linux-dev-3e8a72d1dae374cf6fc1dba97cec663585845ff9.zip | |
net: dsa: reduce number of protocol hooks
DSA is currently registering one packet_type function per EtherType it
needs to intercept in the receive path of a DSA-enabled Ethernet device.
Right now we have three of them: trailer, DSA and eDSA, and there might
be more in the future, this will not scale to the addition of new
protocols.
This patch proceeds with adding a new layer of abstraction and two new
functions:
dsa_switch_rcv() which will dispatch into the tag-protocol specific
receive function implemented by net/dsa/tag_*.c
dsa_slave_xmit() which will dispatch into the tag-protocol specific
transmit function implemented by net/dsa/tag_*.c
When we do create the per-port slave network devices, we iterate over
the switch protocol to assign the DSA-specific receive and transmit
operations.
A new fake ethertype value is used: ETH_P_XDSA to illustrate the fact
that this is no longer going to look like ETH_P_DSA or ETH_P_TRAILER
like it used to be.
This allows us to greatly simplify the check in eth_type_trans() and
always override the skb->protocol with ETH_P_XDSA for Ethernet switches
tagged protocol, while also reducing the number repetitive slave
netdevice_ops assignments.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h index 0f8210b8e0bc..aa63ed023c2b 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ #define ETH_P_PHONET 0x00F5 /* Nokia Phonet frames */ #define ETH_P_IEEE802154 0x00F6 /* IEEE802.15.4 frame */ #define ETH_P_CAIF 0x00F7 /* ST-Ericsson CAIF protocol */ +#define ETH_P_XDSA 0x00F8 /* Multiplexed DSA protocol */ /* * This is an Ethernet frame header. |