Re: [PATCH RFC net-next v3 4/4] net: dsa: add basic initial driver for MxL862xx switches

[Andrew Lunn]

> > Do the ports know not to forward packets between each other by default,
> > just to the CPU port? Which setting does that? Is address learning
> > turned off on user ports, since they are operating as standalone?
> 
> The configuration of the switch at this points depends on the default
> configuration which is attached to the firmware blob on the external
> flash chip attached to the switch IC.
> 
> It's an ongoing debate with MaxLinear to find a meaningful way to deal
> with (or rather: flush) that default configuration without needing to
> use all the API.
> 
> In the next series after that one I plan to add all basic bridge and
> bridge-port configuration API calls which can then also be used to
> create "single port bridges" for standalone ports, configure learning,

So does this mean this patch series does allow packets to flow between
ports, not just to the CPU?

That is a fundamental part of DSA, switchdev, linux. netdev interfaces
are separated by default. If this is not true, you should add a big
fat warning to the patchset indicating how it is broken and what the
plan is to fix it.

   Andrew