Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: dsa: b53: Fix for brcm tag issue in Cygnus SoC
From: David Miller
Date: Wed Jun 06 2018 - 13:48:45 EST
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 14:41:41 -0700
> On 06/05/2018 01:38 PM, Arun Parameswaran wrote:
>> In the Broadcom Cygnus SoC, the brcm tag needs to be inserted
>> in between the mac address and the ether type (should use
>> 'DSA_PROTO_TAG_BRCM') for the packets sent to the internal
>> b53 switch.
>>
>> Since the Cygnus was added with the BCM58XX device id and the
>> BCM58XX uses 'DSA_PROTO_TAG_BRCM_PREPEND', the data path is
>> broken, due to the incorrect brcm tag location.
>>
>> Add a new b53 device id (BCM583XX) for Cygnus family to fix the
>> issue. Add the new device id to the BCM58XX family as Cygnus
>> is similar to the BCM58XX in most other functionalities.
>>
>> Fixes: 11606039604c ("net: dsa: b53: Support prepended Broadcom tags")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arun Parameswaran <arun.parameswaran@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Clement originally reported this to me/us:
>
> Reported-by: Clément Péron <peron.clem@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I completely overlooked that when adding support for prepended Broadcom
> tags, thanks for the fix Arun!
>
> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> David, can you also queue this up for -stable? Thank you
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks everyone.