Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: dsa: use per-port upstream port

[Vivien Didelot]

Hi David,

David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon,  4 Dec 2017 12:34:52 -0500
>
>> An upstream port is a local switch port used to reach a CPU port.
>> 
>> DSA still considers a unique CPU port in the whole switch fabric and
>> thus return a unique upstream port for a given switch. This is wrong in
>> a multiple CPU ports environment.
>> 
>> We are now switching to using the dedicated CPU port assigned to each
>> port in order to get rid of the deprecated unique tree CPU port.
>> 
>> This patchset makes the dsa_upstream_port() helper take a port argument
>> and goes one step closer complete support for multiple CPU ports.
>
> Please adhere to reverse-christmas-tree for variable declarations in
> these changes.

Totally makes sense for this month of the year, I'm replanting a v2!


Thanks,

        Vivien