Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/8] Add Xilinx TSN Endpoint Ethernet MAC driver

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2026 00:49:48 +0530 Srinivas Neeli wrote:
> This series adds the wrapper and endpoint side of the IP. The switch-facing
> part is exposed through the Distributed Switch Architecture (DSA) framework
> in a follow-up series, so that MAC1 and MAC2 show up to Linux as switch
> ports with the endpoint acting as the CPU/conduit port. The endpoint frames
> are already classified by source-port id and tagged with DSA port metadata
> here, so the switch series can consume them without further endpoint
> change.

I'm not sure why you're implementing this as DSA.
This needs to be explained, if a single driver can bind and control 
the whole thing, that's AFAIU preferable. You can keep the
implementation details in the driver without exposing the conduit
to user space