Re: [PATCH net-next v3 8/8] net: dsa: soce: Disable unsupported hardware STP

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From: Andrew Lunn

Date: Fri Sep 25 2026 - 19:25:26 EST

On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 12:39:35PM +0200, Vasilij Strassheim wrote:
> The driver does not implement hardware STP offloading yet.

What exactly do you mean by STP offload? Can it do the actual
protocol? No DSA switch can do that, we always use the software
implementation. I'm not even sure it is possible to offload the actual
protocol.

Andrew