Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] net: dsa: add support for the SMSC-LAN9303 tagging format
From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Wed Apr 12 2017 - 10:45:36 EST
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 04:02:15PM +0200, Juergen Borleis wrote:
> To define the outgoing port and to discover the incoming port a regular
> VLAN tag is used by the LAN9303. But its VID meaning is 'special'.
>
> This tag handler/filter depends on some hardware features which must be
> enabled in the device to provide and make use of this special VLAN tag
> to control the destination and the source of an ethernet packet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Borleis <jbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
Andrew